Word: waged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member family; each state will contribute only 10%. Beyond that, Washington will pay 75% of the first $500 of state supplements to the $4,200. Then it will pay 25% of supplements that bring recipients up to the poverty line. States will be required to pay 10% of the wages of public service jobs, which will pay the minimum wage, and they can vote nonmatching supplements...
...remains in the home. A working four-member family will receive an annual $2,300 payment if it earns no more than $3,800 a year. Beyond that, benefits will be cut by 50? on every dollar up to $8,400, when they will be eliminated altogether. If a wage earner cannot find a job after eight weeks of search, his family will receive the standard welfare payment of $4,200 a year. When he lands a job, the family benefits drop back to $2,300. Above all, this phase of the program keeps the family intact. The father...
...wage-price chief:. "We can do a lot better...
...ready to take at least a slightly more active stand against rising living costs. One sign came last week when the Senate approved the President's appointment of Barry P. Bosworth, 34, a Brookings Institution economist, to succeed Michael Moskow as chief of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. The council, a relic of the free market philosophy of the former Administration, has no power of enforcement and has been less than vigorous in exercising its authority to review wage and price increases. Bosworth, however, would like nothing better than to transform the council into a potent force...
Most businessmen and labor leaders are opposed to jawboning, guidelines or any other form of wage-price regulation...