California lawmakers clash over Reagan school aid cuts
In Sacramento UPI reports Gov Reagan's plan to trim state funds to local schools draws unlikely cross party opposition from Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh and State Superintendent Max Rafferty who call the move a panic and a step in the wrong direction. The furor intensifies as the budget fight pits education needs against a $1.2 million available aid and potential cuts to welfare Medi Cal UC budgets.
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Aid System Unworkable Solons Told
A Los Angeles Senate committee heard that the present welfare system is unworkable and unresponsive to 1960s needs. Ellis P Murphy of the Los Angeles County Social Services urged replacing it with a new income maintenance method and warned federal funding would rise if kept. Murphy cited 485000 county recipients with only about 10000 trainable or employable, and criticized Gov Reagan's $275 monthly cap as harming large poverty families led by mothers. Berkeley judge slams pawnbroker rate bill as racist and harmful to the poor, noting small loans would incur steep fees.
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