Welfare Myths vs Facts Stirs Policy Debate
A pamphlet from HEW titled Welfare Myths vs Facts sparks controversy over fraud rates and pre welfare investigations. The piece cites low alleged fraud, cites New York and Nevada data, and criticizes HEW for halting pre eligibility checks while arguing for accountability and work incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Housing, Education and Welfare
HEW
New York
New York State
Department of Social Services
Nevada
Ronald Reagan
California
Elliot Richardson
Pres
Nixon faces new National Commission on Individual Rights
The article outlines the creation and powers of a National Commission on Individual Rights authorized by the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. It can review federal laws on surveillance, grand juries, and preventive detention, and may compel information from executive agencies. Eight of nineteen members are appointed, with Congress selecting four. seven remain to be chosen by the President.
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Nixon
HEW
Richardson
Martinsville
Elfare
Individual Rights Com
Washington
KFS
Scranton Commission On Campus
Nixon White House
Individual Rights Commission
Commission
Tis
National Commission On
United States
House
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Executive Branch
House Judiciary Committee
Emanuel Celler
Chicago
Abner Mikva
Sam Ervin
N.C
Howard Gurney
Fla
John McClellan
D., Ark
Wiliam Roth
Del
Ervin
John Mitchell
White House
National ‘Commission of Individual Rights
King Features Syndicate
ABC
Independent
PBS
New York City
Walter Cronkite
Channel 2
TV Tian
Yahoo
Putnam
Los Angeles
TRTV
Los Angelenos
Sears, Roebuck
American Civil Liberties Union
The Fairness Doctrine Debate and TV News Bias
The piece debates how the Fairness Doctrine applies to TV news coverage during the 1968 election. It cites Edith Efron and KTTV in Los Angeles, questions balance requirements, and warns against overreach or uniform hiring quotas across stations.
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Edith Efron
Humphrey
KTTV
Los Angeles
National Association For Better Broadcasting
NABB
FCC
George Putnam
Putnam
University of California
Archie Bunker
Channel 11
CBS
NBC
Common Cause exposed as grass roots reform bluff
Alice Widener critiques John Gardner and the Common Cause group highlighting its 1971 shift toward grassroots activism, its 29 new board members, and lavish offices. She notes lobbying activity against Boeing SST and questions the organization's motives while predicting ongoing public backlash and costly campaigns.
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Bunkum
York City
Common Cause
John Gardner
Lindsay
Gardner
Johnson
Congress
Jack E. Conna
Boeing Company
Conway
New York Times
Washington, D.C
New York Daily News
Reuben Maury
Grass Roots
Common Cause Buakum
U.S.A
Beware of Char l ie s in the China debate
Holmes Alexander warns of modern charlies amid American coverage of China and Mao era reforms. He cites Saturday Review articles by Bronson Clark and Dr. E Grey Dimond, noting mixed anti and pro China views and a wary tone ahead of a presidential visit to Peking.
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Washington, D.C
Quisling
Random House
Charlie
U.S
American Republic
People's Republic
Red China
Bronson Clark
American Friends Service Committee
Clark
Chairman Mao
Mao
USS
Congress
Saturday Review
E. Grey Dimond
Dimond
Army
Health, Education, and Welfare Department
Ross Terrill
the Atlantic
Dulles
Geneva
America
China
Peking
McNaught Syndiate, Inc
Critique of Textbook Quality in High School Literature
A 1971 open critique argues that current high school literature anthologies and Hunter College produced programs waste time on youth relevance. It laments mediocrity, exclusion of Shakespeare, and a drift toward commodified, pro forma writing that fails to spark moral imagination or genuine reading.
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America
James J. Lynch
Bertrand Evans
Antho
Lynch
Evans
Bacon
Hunter College
Yesteryear
Pople
Gen. Fea. Corp
Top ten stories of the year there in the Kokomo Tribune
Editors list the year’s major events from the U S Constitution and Red China to Nixon trips to Apollo landings and the Attica prison riot. Also cited are wage and price controls, school busing, the Pentagon Papers, India Pakistan war, and Supreme Court changes.
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My Lai
Amtrak
Supreme Court
Gur
Lst
Red China
United Nations
Nixon
Soviet Union
China
Pontiac
Mich
Charlotte
N.C
Detroit
Pentagon Papers
India
Pakistan
William L. Calley Jr
Ernest Medina
Hugo L. Black
John Harlan
Attica
Ireland
Senate
U.S
Kokomo Tribune
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R. D. Hofer
Industrial News Review
Phillips
By Kevin P. Phillips
Ight
THE
Anderson Herald
Anderson
Jackson Street
Indiana
Beorge D.crittenserger
Harriet W. Toner
Rear Ane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Swervary
Robert E Jalisn
Menager
Carver
Ouhide
Focal Move
Carter
Herald
Associated Press
ITAP
Ingress
Buckley
Alice Widener
Holmes Alexander
Alexander
Foundation
Calle America’s Future
Main St
New Rochelle
Amelia's
United States of America
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