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Though many Americans concur with Reagan's plan to put welfare recipients to work, some disagree with the assumptions behind such a move. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Chicago-based Operation Push stresses hard work and self-help as the road to minority success, calls workfare "psychological warfare against poor people." Says Jackson: "It's fueling the meanness mania in this country. It suggests something negative about the character of poor people." Because there are so few jobs around, some critics fear that workfare will force welfare recipients to labor for low pay in substandard conditions...
Yale may face a shortage of loans next year and may not be able to increase financial aid packages enough to cover rising tuition costs, White said, adding that if the federal government continues to reduce its support, Yale might have to increase the amount of self-help it requires from financial aid students...
...satisfied reader of How to Do Your Own Divorce in California to the book's publisher, Nolo Press. The happily divorced man is one of millions of Americans who have found that a likely place to seek solutions to their legal problems is often the neighborhood bookstore. Self-help manuals are proliferating, usually in paperback, and cover every subject from small-claims court to homosexual rights. Nolo, with 20 titles in print, expects to gross $750,000 this year, up $500,000 from 1978. An estimated 50 other publishers throng the field, ranging from giant, Canada-based International Self...
...some bar groups, the self-help message seems to be sinking in. In Chicago, Philadelphia and Kansas City residents can now call a bar-sponsored information line, listen to a tape on a subject like child custody or wills and at the end get a referral number if they want to retain a qualified practitioner. This seems a step in the right direction. But chances are that until attorneys boost their image and lower their fees, many callers will hang up before getting the referral number, and head for their bookstore instead...
...political system in 1968 by trying to run a pig for President. As one of the Chicago Seven defendants, he was convicted of in citing the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention; the conviction was over turned on appeal. In the '70s he ran the gauntlet of self-help exercises: Esalen to est, yoga to bioenergetics. Admits Rubin: "I'm very good at predicting trends...