Middle Class Americans in the Tax and Inflation Era
The editorial highlights Rep. Lee Hamilton's portrayal of middle class Americans as squeezed by inflation recession and high taxes. It notes about 55 million families fall in the middle income range 10 000 to 35 000 and that home ownership costs and limited middle income aid threaten their finances and optimism. It urges policy weight on middle class impact.
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Lee Hamilton
D-Ind
Hamilton
U.S
Vietnam
Lulu Belle Wiseman's ERA vote shocks North Carolina House
Paul Harvey recalls Lulu Belle Wiseman, known from National Barn Dance, as she and 12 other female lawmakers faced public pressure. Her district’s vote against the Equal Rights Amendment killed its momentum for 1979. She defended representing constituents over personal belief, crying after the turn of events. The piece ties her action to a broader reflection on democracy and the preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
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Lulu Belle
House
North Carolina
Congress
United States
Era
Myrtle Wiseman
Wiseman
Scotty
Ford’s bold no to NYC bailout echoes budget realities
In a pointed letter to Mayor Beame, President Ford rejects a 1.5 billion federal bailout for New York City, urging painful public choices and fiscal restraint. The column praises the stance as courageous, contrasts it with liberal spending, and imagines a reformist federal team to set the nation on a steadier course.
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Dent Ford
Yu Ewunean
York City
Ford
Princeton University
New York City
Abe Beame
Beame
Mayaguez
White House
United States
the Treasury
New York
Washington
Treasury
George Humphrey
Eisenhower
Capitol
Harvard University
Nelson Rockefeller
Albany
Urban Development Corporation
People's
John Lindsay
Liberal Party
Alex Rose
Lindsay
Rose
City Hall
Hugh Carey
New York State
Carey
Gerald Ford
William E. Simon
Defense
James R Schlesinger
Oceanic giveaway sparks debate on common heritage of mankind
The piece argues that seabed mineral wealth belongs to energetic nations, opposing the United Nations Law of the Sea concept. It cites LSU and Dartmouth scholars warning that shared wealth could raise costs for the United States, urging U.S. negotiators to prioritize American interests over Third World demands and halt wealth transfers.
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CIA
Pacific
United States
State Dept
David B. Johnson
Louisana State University
Venezuela
U.S
Johnson
Dennis E. Logue
Dartmouth College
U.S. Treasury Department
American Enterprise Institute
LSU
United Nations
Geneva
Switzerland
America
Federal Diary- Credit checks expand in federal hiring
Since 1974 the Civil Service Commission uses Credit Bureau Reports Inc. of Houston for nationwide credit checks on applicants and employees in critical sensitive posts. About 335000 name checks and 28000 full-field investigations are planned this year across 90 agencies, with DOD Treasury FBI and State using separate systems. Credit history alone does not determine fitness. chronic indebtedness signals financial integrity concerns.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
CSC
Defense Department
Treasury
State
FBI
Houston
Credit Bureau Reports Inc
Internal Revenue Service
Defense
State Department
Opposition Grows Against Consumer Advocacy Agency Bill
A conservative view says the House will pass a repackaged Consumer Protection Agency bill despite broad public doubt. Ralph Nader and allies push for it while 75 percent of Americans quarrel with the plan, citing a $60 million price tag. The piece warns of a new bureaucracy, potential data access, and labor exemptions.
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House of Representatives
Agency For
Consumer Advocacy
Senate
Consumer Protection Agency
Ralph Nader
Jacob Javits
Abraham Ribicoff
Charles Percy
Opinion Research Corp
Congress
Organized Labor
Labor
House
New York City at Deadlock as Bankruptcy Looms
Capital Fare examines New York City’s dire finances, noting a $2 billion annual debt service from a 1975-76 budget, a welfare state burden, and calls for federal guarantees. It cites Beame’s criticism of Ford and reveals the scale of public payrolls and services funded by taxpayers amid rising unemployment and crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
York
Atlantic Ocean
Will Rogers on flood relief and Congress
Will Rogers mocks Congress as Mississippi floods teach a harsh lesson. He quotes residents demanding protection not relief and jokes about extreme, impractical fixes like bore holes in the river or redirecting floodwater to the Great Lakes, highlighting political ineptitude.
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Mississippi
Congress
Great Lakes
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