Tax Cuts Called Off After Economy Boost
The White House ruled out immediate tax cuts despite a first quarter GNP rise of 28.5 billion dollars. George P. Shultz said expansion is solid and no policy shift is needed now. Inflation stayed high at 5.2 percent, with the auto rebound driving most of the growth and other sectors remaining slack.
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White House
Nixon
George P. Shultz
Shultz
Newsmen
General Motors
New Rules Proposed For Food-Stamp Program
Washington AP Nixon administration seeks fall implementation of sweeping food-stamp rules. A national income-eligibility standard would allow a four-person family to earn up to 360 dollars monthly and remain eligible, expanding access in most states. The plan tightens requirements for nonworkers and students and bars nonrelated commune living.
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Congress
Agriculture Department
Asst
Agriculture
Richard E. Lyng
South Carolina
United States
Lyng
Nixon
Observations on Industry Trends and Worker Motivation
New York AP notes on funding debates for supersonic travel and the push for crash resistant bumpers. It covers automotive bumper standards, cost concerns, and the impact on insurance. It also discusses the Conference Board study on job design, motivation, and worker empowerment with techniques like job rotation enlargement enrichment and work simplification.
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New York
Alexander Trowbridge
Conference Board
Trowbridge
Harold Rush
Aerospace
Court hears fight over farmland valuation orders in Kansas
Kansas state officials clash over a 1963 law used to change farmland values. Director Ronald Dwyer seeks to confirm the order while Attorney General Vern Miller pushes for an injunction. A hearing is set to decide if the injunction becomes permanent and if the law is constitutional.
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Topeka
Ronald F. Dwyer
Shawnee County
Dwyer
David Prager
Property Valuation Department
Clarence J. Malone
Miller
Hostile Congress Dampens Nixon Revenue Sharing Plan
In a hostile Congress, six special revenue sharing plans and an $5 billion general revenue sharing proposal funded by the White House face dim prospects. House committees oppose and may limit hearings this year. education and manpower plans meet resistance, with possible summer hearings on community development. Rural development remains unassigned. The overall tax plan struggles as members push back against ceding funds to states. The clock runs slow on Nixon’s agenda.
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Nixon
Congress
Carl D. Perkins
D-Ky
House Education and Labor Committee
White House
Education and Labor Committee
House Banking and Currency Committee
Federal Action to End Campus Sex Bias Reaches Colleges
The HEW orders colleges to eliminate sex discrimination or risk loss of federal contracts. Harvard and Michigan have negotiated agreements to end pay gaps and promote women. HEW plans to expand field investigators to over 100 by 1972, with dozens of investigations and many allegations pending. Michigan’s pact requires salary equity, back pay, and active recruitment of women in faculty positions.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Harvard
University of Michigan
J. Stanley Pottinger
HEW
The
University of
Michigan
Fidele Fauri
William Cash
University
Owen Kiely
Kiely
Pottinger
New Churches Rise in the Netherlands
The Reformed Churches in the Netherlands report 173 new church buildings erected in the last decade and 41 existing structures modernized or enlarged, reflecting church growth and expansion across the country.
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Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
Reformed Churches
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