Word: worke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, the Green Berets were assigned the task of border surveillance, interdiction of enemy supply routes, attacks and ambushes. In addition, they work with the border natives, mostly Nungs and Montagnards, operating nearly 70 border and highlands camps where a dozen Green Berets will spearhead a force of several hundred irregulars...
...welfare-reform program intended, by linking aid to work, to overhaul fundamentally poverty assistance. For a family of four, the basic federal subsidy would be $1,600, available to able-bodied recipients only if they accept employment or enrollment in job-training classes. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) would lose operating authority over the nation's antipoverty projects and would assume the more limited responsibility for research and development of new programs...
Employer of Last Resort. Most of the first round of criticism was aimed at welfare reform, and both liberals and conservatives joined in the firing. Overall, they praised Nixon's desire to combine an income supplement to the working poor with a national minimum welfare benefit, but they severely scored the way the Administration proposed to make the new system work...
Under the provisions of the Nixon welfare plan, able-bodied parents, except mothers of preschool-age children, would be required to accept "suitable" work or job training, if offered. Yet neither this program nor the proposed manpower-training act provides any means to create more jobs. "Like the welfare proposal," argued A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "the manpower message outlines a training mechanism but suggests no plan -and provides no funds-for turning a trainee into a job holder. It is the Government that must be the employer of last resort, and on that subject the President's proposal...
...unemployed) for three consecutive months, a level that some experts think could be reached this year. "If unemployment goes that high," argued Califano, "it's not manpower funds they'll need. It's jobs. The guys who are already trained will be out of work. You can make a case that we need a public-employment program right now." The primary problem is money. The cost of the Government's assuming the role of employer of last resort could be astronomical, far above what a Congress concerned with inflation would accept. Unemployment...