Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could very easily grow worse, with unemployment topping the post-World War II peak of 7½% Among other things, it urged fat federal unemployment subsidies to guarantee every jobless worker at least 50% of his wages for 39 weeks; big Government spending programs for health, welfare, urban renewal, school buildings and teachers' salaries; more construction of highways, post offices, military bases, etc. Cost: "$3 billion to $5 billion...
...HOUSING: A group headed by Joseph P. McMurray, former New York State housing commissioner recommended a program including $500 million a year for college housing loans, $650 million a year for urban renewal, big subsidies for low-income housing, a step-up in Federal Housing Administration authorizations and liberalized terms, a new Cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development, a loan fund for suburban planning, aid for mass transit, etc. Cost of the package: not disclosed...
...this year, with Felt as his running mate and reform support, and probably win. The plan calls for him to step down soon after, leaving his job to Felt and plucking for himself a ripe Kennedy ambassadorship (rumored: Ireland or Israel) or a new Cabinet post (rumored: Secretary of Urban Redevelopment). As a leading reform Democratic officeholder said: "Wagner is neither a strong man nor a decisive person. A federal appointment is logical...
Farmers leaving the land and those attempting to fight the trend towards "industrial farming" have every right to a governmental helping hand. To facilitate the transition between rural and urban life and to provide migrants with the means to get started in another field, the government ought to offer to buy farms at reasonable rates. At the same time, a credit corporation on the lines of the Small Business Administration must be established to float loans for small farmers who wish to remain on the land, but who need to expand their facilities in order to survive...
...question. Nor is the plan whereby a state's votes would be allocated proportionate to its popular vote wise from the liberal point of view; in fact, this plan is favored by the one-party South precisely because it would split the votes of the great populous urban states, leaving the Southern vote unified. A third formula, to elect electors from Congressional districts, would be disastrous, since Congressional districts are grotesquely out of joint with the actual population distribution in their states...