Tax Hike Proposal Targets Large Corporations
The House Ways and Means Committee proposes a $4.2 billion tax increase aimed mainly at large corporations as part of efforts to balance the 1981 budget. The House advances an $15 billion emergency spending package for refugee aid disaster relief black lung benefits and a federal unemployment fund. It includes $100 million to resettle Cuban and Haitian refugees in south Florida with restrictions on felons and prostitutes, and $1.7 billion for disaster relief including $50 million to rebuild the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa Bay.
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Ways and Means
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Florida
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge
Social Security Trustees Warn of Delayed Benefits Risk
The Social Security trustees warned Congress that a prolonged recession could delay benefit payments in 1983. They outlined three economic scenarios, with the worst predicting a 1.7 percent GNP drop in 1980 and 1 percent in 1981, high inflation through 1985, and unemployment between 7 and 9.1 percent.
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Washington
Congress
Old Age and Survivors Insurance
Refugees Refuse Topless Jobs in Florida Camp
Seven Cuban women at a Central Florida migrant camp refused a sponsor’s offer of topless dancing work at a nightclub. They had arrived from Eglin AFB in North Florida and were escorted by deputies to Union Rescue Mission in Orlando. The sponsor claimed the job, which allegedly included prostitution, was their work. the women, Catholic and reportedly virgins, declined and sought permanent homes through the refugee aid group. The women are among about 114,000 Freedom Flotilla refugees who arrived in the U.S. over two months.
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Florida
Eglin Air Force Base
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Crista Matulevicius
Central Florida
Freedom Flotilla
United States
Ms. Matulevicius
Union Rescue Mission
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