Rosa Pitts Breaks Ground as Woman Miner in Coal Field
Rosa Pitts, a 44 year old mother of nine, divorced after 20 years of marriage, works in a Pennsylvania coal mine. She faced ridicule but advances as women increasingly enter mining, with Kentucky mandating hires to curb gender-based job losses.
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Tom Tiede
Rosa
Rosa Pitts
Kentucky
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Pennsylvania
America
United Mine Workers
Washington
Pitts
Appalachia
Welfare fraud debate clouds American ideals and policy
A Chicago grand jury investigated 75 to 100 government workers over welfare fraud while Gov. James Thompson announced audits of fraud detection. The piece argues welfare remains essential for many, critiques moral framing, and urges realism about poverty, unemployment, and the system’s limits, noting most recipients are incapacitated or supporting children.
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Samuel Skinner
Chicago
Gov. Thompson
America
Energy wealth and burdens of the Alaskan pipeline
The Wall Street Journal notes construction damage to Alaska’s landscape, urging caution on future projects. It discusses pipeline routing for oil and accompanying gas, options to California and the Midwest, and the need for conservation to avoid future energy crises while wary of relying on the pipeline as a sole solution.
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United States
Wall Street Journal
Journal
Valdez
Alaska
California
Midwest
Midland
Tex
Japan
Canada
Dwight
Ill
Carter
Automakers seek delay on tougher bumper standards
U S automakers push for delaying stricter bumper rules set for 1981 arguing cost and mileage concerns. Transportation officials consider a trade off allowing consumer bumper information campaigns in exchange for postponed deadlines.
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U.S
Transportation Department
Highway Safety Division
Welfare reform hinges on real work opportunities not incentives
Alvin L. Schorr argues that the core issue is access to decent income and sufficient jobs, not incentive payments. He notes that prevention depends on employment growth, tax credits, and Social Security rules, with a simple single program unlikely to work without broader reforms.
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Alvin Schorr
Nixon
Walter Mondale
Richard M. Nixon
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Southern Illinois
Aindsay-Schaub Newspaper
John C. Gardner
William B. Cox Jr
Alvin,l. Schorr
Ven Over
Carter College OF Surgeons
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