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...Office of Management and Budget computer. Its master, Stockman, has admitted changing its programming early this year to avoid a forecast of embarrassingly huge deficits. Indeed OMB last summer hired four college students to supplement its work with calculations done by hand, because, says Spokesman Edwin Dale, "computers are awfully rigid." Nonetheless last week the computer in effect accused the House Appropriations computer of printing out phony figures that underestimated how much would be spent on food stamps and supplemental security income for the disabled. The resolution that came out of the Senate-House conference, said the OMB computer, would...
Sixteen years ago, the Government began providing funds for low-income litigants in civil cases. It was a Great Society program intended to supplement the constitutional guarantee of a lawyer for poor defendants in criminal cases, and it worked. Last year 6,200 poverty lawyers won close to four-fifths of the cases they brought on behalf of 1.5 million eligible poor clients. (For a family of four, income must be below $10,563.) Almost all the cases involved routine problems like evictions, repossessions, divorces and discontinued Social Security payments...
This book does wile away an hour or two in a useless, harmless sort of way. It's doubtful that it will convert anyone, but it could make a nice hard-bound supplement to that magazine rack in the bathroom...
...being inadequate." Edward O'Gorman of Houston worked as an accountant for a steel-fabricating firm for 30 years and luckily invested well. Says he: "I couldn't go a week on my pension without other financial support. Everyone I know uses other income to supplement his pension...
When Social Security was founded in 1935, it was supposed to be a supplement, rather than a substitute, for private pension plans and retirement savings. But over the years, generous Government benefits made it possible for most retirees to look largely to Washington for income in their old age. Now America's aging work force will almost certainly reduce the role of Social Security and make company pension programs more important than ever. -By Alexander L Taylor...