Unemployment pay study questions incentive to work
The GAO finds unemployment compensation may reduce work incentive as 3,000 surveyed earned 64 percent of prior wages on average. It calls for reforms such as taxing benefits, reducing payments when others income rises, and standardizing benefit calculation to curb abuse while boosting work incentives. States like Iowa have already trimmed benefit periods.
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Windfall tax on oil profits foes in Senate Chief Long stalls plan
President Carter faces a stalled windfall tax as Senate Finance Chairman Russell Long trims revenue estimates, exemptions, and credits. The plan to fund syn fuels and urban transit weakens, with post decontrol oil profits rising and relief to low income groups dwindling while conservation credits gain priority. The political fight highlights oil company influence and congressional inertia amid the energy crisis.
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Iowa law facing creationism in schools unlikely
Doctrinal push to mandate creation theory in Iowa public schools appears untenable as lawmakers study curricula and prefer not to force religious teaching into science. Scientists widely support evolution, while advocates argue for clarifying the subject. A public briefing by the Department of Public Instruction could illuminate facts, but reliance on idle legislative effort risks folly.
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Trail's end nears for black rhino protection push
Syndicated columnist Smith Hempstone surveys the black rhino crisis across Africa. He cites Kenya's Moi directive safeguarding about 2000 rhinos, WWF fundraising, and the drastic declines from colonial-era hunting. The piece explains horn poaching economics, rhino behavior, and the urgent need for conservation despite bleak futures.
Now Economics and the New Generation Crisis
A La Times opinion piece notes the Now Generation resists delayed gratification with low savings and high credit, while New Politics and New Economics promote expansive deficits. It traces inflation, regulatory bloat, and waning productivity to a shift toward grab now policies, forecasting a costly future.
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