THE BATTALION Page 5
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1974
Study suggests alternatives
to public welfare programs
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A
three-year congressional study re
commends ending most public wel
fare programs, including food
stamps, in favor of tax credits, new
subsistence allowances and work in
centives.
The study, released Wednesday
by Rep. Martha W. Griffiths,
D-Mich., also calls for an end to
state control of welfare programs in
favor of a federally administered
system that woidd be run by the
Internal Revenue Service.
“Let’s junk the whole thing; it’s
impossible,” Mrs. Griffiths said at a
news conference at which the new
proposal was released. She said she
was introducing a bill Thursday for
the new system.
At the same time, the Agriculture
Department announced proposed
new regulations to force poor peo
ple to spend more for food stamps.
The higher cost of food stamps
would save the government at least
$645 million a year, the department
estimated.
Under the plan, families would
pay 30 percent of their net monthly
income beginning next March 1 to
receive food stamps. Currently, the
cost averages about 23 percent.
The nation’s 14.7 million food
stamp recipients presently pay
about $2.5 billion for approximately
$6.5 billion worth of coupons.
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A Jan. 27 trial date has been set in
the 85th District Court for Michael
L. Rice, charged with possession of
a controlled substance.
Rice, a former Battalion editor,
and his roommate, Randall W.
Roberts, 805 Montclair, were in
dicted Nov. 21 by the grand jury for
possession of about nine pounds of
marijuana, according to J. Bradley
Smith, assistant district attorney-.
Rice is free on $5,000 personal
recognizance bond.
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this year but most occur on
weekends,” he said.
“The schools don’t have an alarm
system and I don’t know if they need
one,” Byrd said.
“Other than insurance and hav
ing principals, faculty and staff
watch for vandalism, we spend a
very small amount on security,”
Hopson said. “It’s not that we don’t
need to — we just don’t have the
money.”
Police patrol the schools fre
quently, Hopson said, adding there
is fine cooperation between the
police department and the school
system.
‘They’re (police) not looking to
make a bust — they go out of their
way to work with the parents and
the kids,” Hopson said.
Hopson would not give out
further security measures taken by
the district. “I can’t tell you all our
secrets,” he said. “It would defeat
the purpose.”
Hopson said vandals vary widely
in age. The younger vandals have
“mischievous” motivations, while
the teenagers are “looking for some
thing valuable or for kicks or are
taking their rage out on the school
for some imaginary wrong, ” he said.
“It appears that many are stu
dents who are not supervised by
their parents,” Hopson said.
“It’s impossible to trace the small
things like when a kid writes on a
bathroom wall, but the majority of
vandals causing real damage are
caught,” Hopson said.
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The welfare report, prepared by
the subcommittee on fiscal policy of
the Joint Economic Committee, re
commended a system of tax credits
of $225 a person to replace the cur
rent personal exemption of $750 a
person on federal income taxes, and
a subsistence allowance to poor
families and individuals that would
be reduced by 50 cents for every
dollar earned by recipients.
Mrs. Griffiths said the total value
of grants and tax credits would come
to $3,600 for a penniless family of
four with two adults and $3,000 for a
family of four with one adidt.
She said the new program would
cost the federal government $157.4
billion annually, compared with the
estimated $142 billion being spent
in the current 1974-75 fiscal year on
social service programs such as wel
fare, health, education and Social
Security. The current federal
budget totals slightly over $300 bill
ion.
The report recommends begin
ning the new program in 1977 but
says that it could be phased in be
ginning this fiscal year. Mrs. Grif
fiths said it could be financed by a
normal growth in tax revenues.
Existing programs of aid to
families with dependent children
and food stamps would be scrapped
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