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...billion in 1972. Many of the first grants, dispensed through jerry-built state agencies, strayed to low-crime suburbs instead of cities. Nonetheless, the money is being spent with increasing wisdom, and it cannot fail to improve a criminal-justice system that still gets only $6.5 billion a year???barely two-thirds of 1% of the G.N.P. Local taxes for fighting crime will have to go up too. Between 1902 and 1962, the share of local budgets spent for police protection actually dropped from 4.5% to 3.5%; it now stands again at 4.5%. Aside from federal taxes, local police forces...
...there are undoubtedly thousands more who have left without asking at all. In the U.S. alone, an organization called Bearings for Re-Establishment, which helps former priests, ministers and other religious find their way into the secular world, handles about 165 new priest-clients each month?2,000 per year???and this may be less than half of the total number in the U.S. who leave...
...next year will go through an "inflationary recession." There is almost no way that the U.S. can avoid simultaneous increases in both prices and unemployment; the question is just how bad those rises will be. "Never has a U.S. inflation of the present intensity?5% to 6% a year???been controlled without a recession," says Economist Beryl
...bill of some $3.5 billion. Each year, 27 million Americans go into a general hospital, where they spend an average of 8.2 days and get a bill of $530, about half of which is covered by insurance. The total cost of U.S. medical care is now $53 billion a year???5.9% of the gross national product, or 7.5% of all personal income. These figures are far higher than those for other Western countries with at least equivalent quality of care...
Reagan has been under intense pressure to provide some kind of tax relief since he pushed through a $1 billion 1967 tax increase?up 25% over the previous year???whose provisions hit middle-income brackets hardest. He claimed that the additional funds were necessary to pay for the prodigal spending of his predecessor, Pat Brown, but no amount of apologizing could gainsay the fact that he had run on a pledge to keep the cost of government down. Instead, it has gone steadily up; next year's spending will increase 3.9% to $6.2 billion (though the budget will be smaller...