Word: transition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Malone, chief budget analyst for the city, said yesterday cuts can be expected in revenue sharing and capital grant programs such as the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), the Integrated Criminal Apprehension Program (ICAP) and the Urban Mass Transit Administration...
...Social Security tax would free disposable income for lower income groups to compensate. If implemented, the 50-cent tax would pose a severe incremental increase in the price of a gallon of gas, a figure which would encourage wasteful drivers to consider available substitutes or contingencies, such as mass transit or carpooling. In addition, the 50-50 plan might have the indirect effect of revitalizing urban areas by presenting a disincentive to forsake the city for the suburb, thus increasing urban tax bases...
Attempts to force conservation by imposing gasoline taxes are therefore unlikely to result in significant savings. Americans have proved notoriously unwilling to cut down the number of trips they make each day or to drive slowly for conservation. Public transit ridership has actually decreased from 56 rides per capita in 1955 to 25 rides since 1970. The only certain result of increasing gasoline prices is further inflation...
Center Director Claire Olsen told the council $300-350,000 in federal funds would go to buy the site from the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, the current owner of the propery...
...Stearns admits that the Kennedy campaign is in bad shape in Illinois because of rural downstate support for Carter and because of political turmoil in Chicago. Since she announced her support for Kennedy, Byrne has been preoccupied with strikes by transit workers, firemen, and school teachers. Moreover, the machine itself is plagued by vicious infighting. "It is certainly not the best campaign in the country," Stearns says, adding that most of the problems are local...