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...Statistics has found that $1 billion in federal funds spent on the military creates over 100,000 fewer jobs than the same amount spent on education, over 60,000 fewer than that amount spent on health care, fewer jobs still than the same amount spent on construction or mass transit. Partly due to the boom-and-bust nature of defense contracting, military spending is a much less effective tool for stimulating economic growth than that government spending which provides steady jobs...
...Transit mess in Birmingham...
...travel by cab. The cost: $13.35 round trip. Shaw was just one of about 11,000 commuters, most of them low-income blacks, who were stranded last week when Birmingham (pop. 285,000) became the largest city in the country to be without a public mass transit system...
Until the shutdown, the 201 buses of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority served the city and seven municipalities. The buses were also the vehicle of desegregation for 1,300 of some 5,000 schoolchildren who take them every day. Last October the transit authority tried to close the yearly $1 million deficit by cutting back weekday service and eliminating Sunday service. In addition, it raised the fare from 35? to 80? in just one year. Then it turned to the Alabama legislature, but the lawmakers were not quick enough in finding new solutions. With funds dwindling, the transit authority...
Said State Representative Bill Cabaniss: "They are putting pressure on us. They could keep the buses running for a few more weeks." The legislature, in fact, is caught in a city-suburb battle. A year ago, the transit authority pleaded with Jefferson County legislators for a countywide half-cent sales tax, with proceeds estimated at $8 million a year. But some of the area's more affluent towns wanted no transit system and no transit...