Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely the standard Peachtree promotion, but it was a sales pitch nonetheless?not for new industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
Most figures show that the economies of the Southern and Western states, unlike those of the Northern states (including states in the Great Lakes region), are well recovered from the recent recession. For example, the Sunbelt's unemployment rate has hovered around 6%, while recent Northern rates are approximately 8%. Given the South's attractions for business, including its warmer, less energy-consuming climes and nonunionized labor, the regional imbalance may grow. So increasingly Northern states are looking enviously at one Sunbelt advantage that they believe can be reversed: the hefty portion of federal spending the South receives...
...example, according to studies done by the National Journal, nine Northeastern states sent $12.6 billion more to Washington in taxes during fiscal 1976 than they received in federal expenditures; the five Great Lakes states came out $20.1 billion net losers in their dealings with the Treasury. Meanwhile, Southern states received $12.6 billion more from Washington than they paid, and the West cleared more than $10 billion. Other figures show a similar disparity: defense payrolls and contracts averaged $282 per person in the Northeast, compared with $368 in the South and $565 in the West. In a gentle debate with Busbee...
While conceding that Northern unemployment is higher, Southerners say they need their greater share of federal spending because they have more poverty to deal with. Nearly 14% of Southern families are classified as living in poverty, compared with less than 9% in the North, where pay packets are fatter. For example, per capita income in New England averaged $6,590 in 1976, while in the South Atlantic states it averaged $5,861. Northerners reply that their higher living costs, especially for fuel and taxes, make that statistical advantage meaningless. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, a Boston family of four...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) decided at a meeting last night to send a letter to Hugh Calkins '15, chairman of the Harvard Corporation's Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, requesting the University to make public letters from corporations in which Harvard has investments clarifying their employment practices in South Africa...