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...Correspondent Joelle Attinger came across two students who voted for Reagan because they felt he was best equipped to cut federal waste. Says Attinger: "Now both may have to leave Bates because of pending cuts in the student loan program." In Denver, Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury visited a food stamp center, only to find that some people were too embarrassed to talk to him. Says he: "For many aid recipients there is a deep stigma attached to obtaining handouts." Traveling to Erie, Pa., to report on proposed CETA cuts, Correspondent Robert Geline found residents ready to make do- "but nobody...
...wonder: Reagan's program lived up to its advance billing in weight and scope. The President made a few last-minute modifications. For instance, he trimmed a cut in food stamp spending next year from $2.5 billion to $1.8 billion. But the changes were not major. His plan has three main components...
Over and over, too, people dubious about aspects of the President's plan took to heart Reagan's challenge to come up with a better one. New York City Mayor Edward Koch asserted that the proposals to slash mass transit aid and the food stamp program and eliminate the CETA program to hire the unemployed for public-service jobs "are wrong and must not be implemented." Koch added, however: "I agree that there has to be a reduction in spending. He has thrown down the challenge; it's very reasonable. If we don't like...
...wouldn't be here," says Jesus Vigil, 53, a former construction worker disabled in an accident. He draws $340 in disability insurance payments, from which he pays a $126 mortgage and partially supports a son. He has the papers that he hopes will convince the Denver food stamp program of his need: a $319 overdue utility bill and a $97 overdue water bill. "Food is so high," he says, "I just can't stay ahead." Vigil is allotted $33 a month. Each month, Jose Chavez, 72, a retired sheepherder, is driven by his granddaughter three miles in order...
These drab monthly rituals have been going on for 16 years at centers like the schoolhouse on West Byers Place, ever since the Department of Agriculture expanded its food stamp program as part of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. Currently, 12.5% of Denver's residents use the program (the nationwide figure is 10%), which provides an average of $ 138 a month to 24,000 households. Denver is a boom town. Yet because it is an urban area with lots of poverty as well as wealth, as many as 60,000 people there now depend on the stamps...