Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state level, social programs are being seen as an investment in the future. In Colorado, for example, a powerful issue in last November's gubernatorial race was how to handle an expected $434 million windfall in state tax revenues caused by federal tax reform. While the Republican nominee promised to return the money to taxpayers, Democrat Roy Romer proposed to spend it on education, highways, water projects and industrial development. He won. Says he: "I asked people, 'What's more important to you, another $18 in your pocket right now or a job for your kid when he finishes school...
...years, starting in the late '60s with Lyndon Johnson, successive American Presidents have used inflation, foreign borrowing and other devices to avoid coming to terms with some fundamental problems in the nation's economy, especially the runaway spending on middle-class entitlement programs (like Social Security), the falling productivity of some industries and the resulting failure to compete in the international markets. Americans have indulged themselves in a certain denial of reality. Increasingly, however, they suffer from what is called a "cognitive dissonance" between the nominal economy and the real economy. In other words, they cannot figure...
American history in the past 100 years has arranged itself in the cycles with an odd neatness. A period of economic depression, war, social change and activism has generally been followed by a spasm of reactionary backlash, followed by a time of consolidation, relative calm and prosperity...
After a half-century, Reagan sought to steer America on a course away from the New Deal. And yet, in doing so, he more than doubled the national debt. He was unable, or unwilling, in a term and a half tackle middle-class entitlements, such as Social Security, Medicare and wildly excessive farm- support programs. Reagan bequeaths that burden to future Presidents...
...settings. In U.S. prisons, the Birdman of Alcatraz has numerous descendants. In Lima, Ohio, at a facility for mentally ill inmates, part of the courtyard resembles a barnyard. Sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits -- even deer -- roam around. "We're finding the prisoners who have pets are less violent," says Psychiatric Social Worker David Lee. In a double bonus, women inmates in Gig Harbor, Wash., are training special dogs to aid the handicapped. For one family with a daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder, a dog was schooled to pick up signals of an impending seizure and alert the girl...