Ohio bill would extend welfare to working poor families
Columbus Ohio AP a bill to align state social services with federal rules would make working poor families with incomes over 11000 eligible for some welfare benefits. supporters say it reduces suffering and provides statewide accountability while opponents warn it could expand welfare and strain taxpayers. The measure would allow services such as child care vocational rehab and family planning with income limits around 80 percent of state median and up to 15 percent above for potential recipients. The bill passed both chambers and awaits Rhodes signature.
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Columbus, Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Ohio
House
Senate
Legislative Services Commission
Robert E. Netzley
Laura
Netzley
Ambassadors report letters from three kidnapped students
US and Dutch ambassadors in Tanzania received second letters from three Stanford students kidnapped May 19 by Zaire guerrillas. The letters urged quick action to save their lives as a mid July deadline approached. Barbara Smuts, another kidnap victim, was released earlier.
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Stanford
Calif
U.S
Tanzania
Stanford University
W Beverley Carter
United States
Jan C. van den Berg
Netherlands
Dar Es Salaam
Bob Beyers
Beyers
David Hamburg
Peter Steiner
University of Nairobi
Carrie Jane Hunter
Atherton
Kenneth Stephen Smith
Garden Grove
Emilie Bergmann
Holland
Court orders new plan for nutritionally adequate food stamps
The U S Agriculture Department must craft a new food stamp plan within 120 days after a Court of Appeals ruling found the current formula invalid for 19.6 million recipients. The court kept existing rules in place temporarily due to system importance and noted the decision impacts access to nutritionally adequate diets. Leaders call it a landmark antihunger ruling signaling entitlement for poor households.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
U.S. Court of Appeals
J. Skelly Wright
Ron Pollock
Food Research and Action Committee
Department
Edward J. Hekman
Food and Nutrition Service
Court reviews Economy Food Plan adequacy for food stamps
Plaintiffs including low income residents, New York City, and Pennsylvania challenge the Economy Food Plan as failing to guarantee an adequate diet and claim the plan costs more than current allotments. The court holds no judgment yet on adequacy and notes the hypothetical four person family used for payments ignores actual recipient ages and sexes.
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City of New York
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Agriculture Department
Louisiana Defeats ERA Ratification Move
Baton Rouge officials report Louisiana House action ends ERA ratification efforts for the current session after an 8-7 committee vote. The full House purged the files, marking the third straight year the state will not ratify the proposed constitutional amendment sought by 38 states must ratify by 1979. Nebraska and Tennessee had previously rescinded approvals. The legality of rescission may go to court.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House of Representatives
House
Nebraska
Tennessee
Toledo man witnesses Castro assassination attempt in 1969
Edward Lamb, a Toledo industrialist, told The Associated Press he witnessed an assassination attempt on Fidel Castro in 1969 during a Cuba visit. He said Castro’s physician later told him the shooter admitted working for the CIA.
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Toledo
Castro
Toledo, Ohio
Edward Lamb
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Lamb
Associated Press
Rene Vallejo
The
CIA
Vallejo
NBC News
London
Lamb Communications Co
CIA Involvement in Trujillo Assassination Plot Questioned
House intelligence committee members report sketchy briefing on CIA role in the 1961 Trujillo assassination. Rep. Dellums says CIA actions could be linked to the killing, while Rep. Harrington cautions the briefing cannot support Stanton’s broader claim. The panel heard about past CIA misdeeds in a 1973 inquiry, with no firm conclusions.
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Washington
House Intelligence Committee
CIA
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
James V. Stanton
D-Ohio
Ronald V. Dellums
D-Calif
Trujillo
Stanton
Santo Domingo
Phili B. Agee
Miami
House
Michael Harrington
Dmass
Harrington
Dellums
Weather outlook for Middletown area this weekend
Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the low 60s. Saturday highs reach mid 80s with a chance of afternoon and evening thundershowers. Yesterday's high was 79 and overnight low 58. Extended outlook shows a chance of rain Sunday and Monday with fair skies Tuesday.
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Middletown
Ford backs tax incentives to spur new power plants
President Ford endorsed labor management committee recommendations to speed utility plant construction and coal conversion. The plan calls for a 12 percent investment tax credit for utilities, tax deferral on reinvested dividends, and extensions of fast writeoffs for pollution controls, aiming to ease energy shortages and support expansion of domestic energy output.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
Last Tax Rebates Mailed Nationwide to Taxpayers
The Treasury Department announced 63,221,161 tax rebates totaling 7.896 billion dollars were sent to taxpayers. Some late rebates with unsettled amounts or recipients may ship in the coming weeks, but the routine rebates have been mailed.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
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