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...race to get on the right side of the educational fence has also been accelerated by pressure from teacher lobbying groups, especially the National Educational Association (NEA), which endorsed Mondale last fall. The NEA endorsement is more than a more stamp of approval for Mondale's platform: it carries with it the promise of campaign workers nationwide and a organization that rivals the AFL-CIO, another group that has backed the Minnesotan...
Jobs immediately tried to put his stamp on the project, which he regarded as a test in which he could prove himself...
...winning substantial bipartisan support from his commission for a program that the Great Communicator has been unable to sell to a skeptical Congress and nation. The commission, composed of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, displayed enough independence to avoid any imputation that it had acted as a rubber stamp. The Democrats, led by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, successfully insisted on some language that troubled both Reagan and Kissinger. Yet in the main they assented to proposals that one State Department official accurately described as "by and large, an endorsement of what Administration policy...
...Management, the panel was overwhelmingly conservative and Republican. Several members have been architects of the President's cuts in food programs. As an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, Kenneth Clarkson, for example, helped devise the budgets that made 1 million people ineligible for food stamps, lowered food-stamp benefits for an additional 20 million and took 2.6 million children out of the school lunch program...
...SHORT, the federal program most successfully alleviating hunger, sickness and death among infants and young children has been subjected to an unrelenting and at times illegal attack by the Reagan Administration. Other hunger programs have proved less resilient: food stamps have already been cut $2 billion, and the Administration is calling for cuts of $3 billion more in coming years. Some 875,000 people have been cut from the food stamp program...