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...Each percentage-point increase in the jobless rate costs the federal budget some $25 billion in a combination of lost taxes and allotted unemployment benefits. Payments under the panoply of federal programs designed to return laid-off workers to the labor force or to train those without skills will swell this year to $11 billion. Since the Federal Government launched its all-out war on unemployment, beginning with President John Kennedy's New Frontier in the early 1960s, a startling $88 billion has been spent on an encyclopedia of job programs. But, at the same time, the number...
...projected birth rates, world population will have risen to 6.35 billion people from 4 billion in 1975. Most of this growth will be in the poorer, less developed countries (LDCs), mostly in their urban slums and shantytowns. Mexico City, already crowded with more than 10 million people, will swell to more than 31 million people; Calcutta will teem with nearly 20 million, and more than 15 million will jam Bombay and Cairo, Jakarta and Seoul. However, in a chilling Malthusian hedge, the study adds: "In the years ahead, lack of food for the urban poor, lack of jobs, and increasing...
Perhaps Eisenhower's greatest asset was his credibility with the American people. If they wished to doze off through the '50s, they counted on Ike to wake them when anything important came up. Reagan, for all of his crinkling swell-guy charm, says things that tend to keep people sitting bolt upright, with sweat on their palms...
...city's new "condo class"--wealthy suburbanites returned to the city--could also change the political system, too. Younger and more fiscally conservative than many of the neighborhood politicians, they will become more powerful as their numbers swell...
...Muskie trait could obstruct a bipartisan policy: his famed, explosive temper, which resembles the thunderous Mandalay dawn. His face reddens, his finger wags, he appears to swell even larger than his imposing 6 ft. 4 in., and then he erupts. But his fellow Senators, even those who have been the target of his wrath, think his temper is manageable. A pinstriped smoothie he may never be, but, says Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, "He doesn't become irrational. He's not going to dump a bomb on the Soviet Union and then say: 'Let's negotiate...