Reform Food Stamp Plan Promises Fair Aid and Trimmed Rolls
Senator Herman E. Talmadge presents Senate Bill 3136 as a major reform to the food stamp program. The plan would simplify administration with a standard deduction, set an upper income limit, and remove about 1.37 million higher income recipients to save federal funds, while increasing benefits for the lowest income families and adding work requirements. The committee argues the measure improves integrity, reduces fraud, and better targets aid, contrasting it with Administration proposals and past reforms.
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Senate
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
United States
Welfare rackets cited in capital reports raise concerns
An opinion piece argues that welfare programs in Washington and state capitals are being exploited as a major racket. It claims taxpayers subsidize swindles and abuses while professing a duty to aid the sick and infirm, voicing sympathy for those on relief yet criticizing the system’s excesses.
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Washington
Welfare waste in New York overpaid payrolls and fraud
A harsh critique notes massive overpayments in New York welfare. It cites sloppy accounting, duplications, and unsubstantiated claims in a month that reached nearly 90 million dollars. The piece questions how cities can endure such inefficiency before a financial debacle.
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New York
Quote on life and crisis from One Man's America
A reflection on how even during world crises daily joys should not be neglected. It argues against taking the era overly solemnly and urges embracing love work friendship sport and family pleasures as essential experiences. From One Man's America by Alistair Cooke.
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America
Alistair Cooke
Border city mayors form group to tackle illegal immigration
El Paso and other border towns convened to form the Organization of United States Border Cities. They urge federal action to fund a Border Area Regional Commission, boost immigration and customs staff, and deepen cooperation with Mexican authorities to curb crime and health costs from illegal entries.
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Wayne McClintock
el Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
Don Henderson
U.S. Borter
United States
U.S
Henderson
Organization of United States Border Cities
Border Aras
United
Mexico
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Edward P. Rodriguez
Eagle Pass
Rodriguez
Organization of Border Cities
Immigration and Customs Service
Border Area Regional Commission
IRS loves its billionaires and Hughes rulings secrecy
The IRS seeks to hide letter rulings issued to Howard Hughes and his companies from public view with congressional help. The Inquirer fought to obtain the Hughes rulings under FOIA, but IRS delayed and aims to retroactively seal past records. The disputed rulings concern pollution control bonds and potential misuses of bond proceeds.
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Donald Barrett
James Steele
Philadelphia Inquirer
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Congress
Howard R. Hughes
Hughes
Washington, D.C
Montana
United States District Court
Ashington
Thomas F. Field
Ction
Field
Treasury Department of
of Tex
The
Inuirer
Howard Hughes
Inquirer
Freedom of Information Act
Donald C. Alexander
the Inquirer
U.S. District Court
Washington
Capitol Hill
Joint
Committee On Internal Revenue
House Committee On Ways and Means
al Aliman
Dore
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Tom Paine and the Birth of American Independence
A compact biographical card on Thomas Paine tracing his role from English exile to American revolutionary beacon. It covers Common Sense, Crisis, and his influence on independence, plus his later years in England France and return to America amidst political feuds.
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England
Philadelphia
George III
George
Thomas Paine
New World
Tom Paine
Paine
Second Continental Congress
Paino
Congress
Foreign Affairs Committee
Ieter
Pennsylvania Assembly
America
France
James Monroe
U.S
United States
Thomas Jefferson
John Q. Adana
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Sen
Herman E. Talmadge
Agriculture and Forestry
Sai
Secretary of Agriculture
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