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...borne out again last week by a Commerce Department analysis of urban demographic trends. The department forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with 1,634,000, but will enjoy the highest per capita income in the U.S.: nearly...
...even more importantly, a draft of manpower to replace money spent on social programs misses the underlying reasons behind the failure of America's public welfare commitment. As residents of the wealthiest nation in the world, American citizens cannot be allowed to evade their tax commitment to the needy. It is ironic that the politicians supporting national service want to draft 18-year-olds, rather than having the courage to ask the parents of these youths to pay more taxes. More to the point, while these 18-year-olds could derive the same benefits from voluntary programs, no year...
That's not leadership; it's evidence that lawmakers have given in to the Reagan reactionary movement. This country is the wealthiest on this planet, and there can be no excuse for not being able to provide enough money to aid the needy. Taxes should be raised, corporations should pay their fair share, and politicians should convince Americans that this is how things should...
...reported by the 77 freshmen elected in 1978, after accounting for inflation. On the average, each of the 43 Representatives had assets of $251,296, vs. $41,358 for the 1978 group. Among the new lawmakers are as many as 15 millionaires, compared with only one in 1978. The wealthiest: Georgia Republican Patrick Swindall, with minimum assets of $1.1 million, not including his home. The tabulations were the idea of Mark Green, head of the Democracy Project and a longtime Ralph Nader associate. Congressmen spent an average of $459,344 to get elected, and of that sum an average...
...Angeles suburb of Hollywood, the industry discovered the last element it needed to achieve dominance among the popular arts: movie stars. Two of them, by turning stereotypes of Everyman and Pretty Girl into archetypes, would become the most recognizable people in the world, and among the wealthiest. The fairy tale needs one more twist: both Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford were immigrants...