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TIME Soundings found that Americans generally want to stop selling wheat to the Soviet Union (57% agree that sales should be stopped v. 14% opposed), trim foreign aid even to friendly nations (38% v. 17%), loosen up credit (44% v. 24%), bring back wage and price controls (35% v. 26%) and cut defense spending (35% v. 28%). On at least one point, the public seems to agree with Ford. By 34% to 27%, those polled were willing to give some tax incentives to business-even though many blame big business for inflation-if the incentives would improve the economy...
...degree to which respondents agreed with these policies differed widely according to their economic circumstances. For example, people in economic distress set a much higher priority than the general public on reimposing wage-price controls, loosening up credit and reducing defense spending...
...Congress is expected to oppose wage-price control, favor defense cuts in the Federal budget over domestic cutsand favor health insurance, which the 93rd Congress...
USDA figures published in 1972 indicate that there are 2.8 million farmworkers (defined as anyone who did farm labor for money any period of time) who averaged 88 days of work per year and $1160 in annual wages. It can hardly be argued that aggregation distorts this figure, since the USDA breaks the general category down into subcategories, and no subcategory of workers averaged earnings anywhere near the figures quoted by Mr. Ferrara. (See Table.) The USDA's finding that no subcategory of farmworkers averaged even a minimally decent average wage is confirmed by three separate studies (by the USDA...
...Ferrara is correct that USDA figures may not include all wages from piece rates, but, given the realities of agricultural production, it is inconceivable that piece rates would substantially increase the income of a significant number of farmworkers. First, there are only a few instances where piece rates are paid as an increment to a base hourly wage, and piece rates alone generally produce low earnings. (Testimony before the 1969 Senate Sub-committee on Migratory Labor indicated that only 10-25 per cent of all farmworkers worked on a piece rate basis and that, at a maximum, a worker might...