Poverty definitions shift how many are poor in America
Washington AP analysis shows that counting in kind benefits like food stamps and medical care radically lowers poverty figures. Using official income alone 26 million people are poor, but adjusting for in kind transfers drops to 11.4 million, altering a 1960s war on poverty narrative and triggering calls for reform.
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John Korbel
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Walter Mondale
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Census Bureau
Mollie Orshansky
Social Security Administration
Orshansky
New York City
Rand Corp
ADC
Rand
Premiere for More Than a Carpenter in Cedar Rapids
Josh McDowell presents the film More Than a Carpenter at Par amount theater Cedar Rapids with showings at 7 and 8 45 p m McDowell of Campus Crusade for Christ notes Cedar Rapids strong response The film set in Israel follows an archeologist facing evidence of Christ’s identity stars Randy Carver Susan Madigan Lee Amber and features McDowell
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Paramount Theater
Cedar Rapids
McDowell
Campus Crusade For Christ
San Bernardino
Calif
Loren E. DeGroot
Israel
Josh
Christ
Randy Carver
Susan Madigan
Lee Amber
Crusade For Christ
Iowa
Museum mirrors the founder at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner
In Boston the museum she founded defies norms with a full time music director. The article highlights the unconventional leadership and distinctive cultural stance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Boston
UPI
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Gardner
Valedictory luncheon honors Coe College chancellor
A noon May 21 luncheon on the Coe College campus honors Chancellor Joseph E. McCabe who will become president emeritus after this school year. Alumni and community friends may attend with tickets at 3.50, with reservations due by May 18 through the alumni office and greenhouse keepers.
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Coe College
Joseph E. McCabe
McCabe
Coe
Replacing Synthetics With Cotton Or Wool Space Needs
The Society of the Plastics Industry estimates 40 million acres of cotton would be needed to replace synthetics while wool would require a billion acres of grazing land. Ralph L. Harding Jr. notes the essential role of man made fibers. The piece also recalls a 1958 Lima Peru anti American demonstration against Vice President Nixon.
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New York
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Alabama
Texas
Society of the Plastics Industry
Ralph L. Harding, Jr
United States
Harding
Richard Nixon
Lima
Peru
Space mice proposal aims for six pregnant subjects on shuttle
University of Louisville scientists Peter Fuller and J Richard Keefe propose sending six pregnant mice on a 12 to 15 day spaceflight to study zero gravity effects on mammalian development. NASA reportedly encouraged the concept and suggested it not be on the first shuttle flight, aiming for a later mission.
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Louisville
Peter M. Fuller
University of Louisville
J. Richard Keefe
NASA
Fuller
Space Agency
Keefe
Houston
Biospace, Inc
Pennsylvania
Lawyers Union Possibility Seen Under NLRB Ruling
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that law firms fall under federal labor law, potentially enabling union organizing for lawyers. Citing a 1975 Supreme Court decision, the board will take labor cases from firms with interstate impact, reversing a 1973 Los Angeles firm decision. Elliott Bredhoff notes this could organize associate attorneys at large firms.
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Washington
UPI
National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
Los Angeles
Elliott Bredhoff
American Bar Assn
Labor Law Council
Lenin Peace Prizes Awarded to Neto and Machel
Angolan President Agostinho Neto and Mozambican President Samora Machel received Lenin peace prizes in Moscow for outstanding services in the struggle for the preservation and strengthening of peace.
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Moscow
Agostinho Neto
Mozambique
Samora Machel
Guidance counselor credits Kirkwood for path to degree
Mike, a North Linn Community Schools guidance counselor, earned his first two college years at Kirkwood in Arts and Sciences transfer courses and completed a BA at the University of Northern Iowa. He says Kirkwood gave him confidence to pursue a four year degree and opened many doors.
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North Linn
Kirkwood
University of Northern Iowa
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