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...environment's future depends in part upon whether the public sentiment mobilized last week will endure to force change, whether Americans will sustain their interest in the longer and duller tasks of cleaning up the land. Says George Wiley, director of the National Welfare Rights Association: "I hope this movement is not a fad, but the signs are not encouraging." Still, there are a few hopeful signs. A Harris poll published last week indicated that Americans, by a margin of 54% to 34%, are willing to pay more taxes to finance air-and water-pollution control. Three years...
Other panclists were Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration, State Sen. John Moakley (D-South Boston), Malcolm Rivkin '58, regional planner with Rivkin and Carson of Washington, D. C., and George Wiley, Executive Director of the National Welfare Rights Organization. The Ecology Coalition keynote speaker was Scott Lang, a second-year Law School student...
...April 21 program will feature a seven-man symposium: Dr. Barry Commner, an ecologist at Washington University; Massachusetts State Senator John J. Moakley; Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine); Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration: George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Dr. George Wiley, president of the Welfare Rights Association; and Malcolm Rifkin, a Washington city planner...
Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, who was the scheduled moderator, entered the room two hours late. "There was not an adequate work incentive for you to come," Wiley quipped...
...George Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, claimed that the objective of welfare should be "to get more money to poor people." Citing a Labor Department statistic which places a desirable minimum family income at $5500, he said that President Nixon's proposal to raise the minimum welfare income to $1600 was "totally inadequate...