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liesday, March 22, 1983 v /The Battalion/Page 7 •polarize’ ountry K United Press International ^■ASHING I ON — Two larvard University scholars say he flight of workers, money and obs from the industrialized Northeast to the South and West ^polarizing the regions. Thev ilso predict Texas will lead the iouth-Central states in popula- ioh growth. ^Kregory Jackson, associate trofessor of education, and leorge Masnick, professor of >ehavioral sciences, writing in he March-April issue of the larvard Business Review, based heii analysis on the 1980 £nsus. ■They predict population A ■■vth in the west-south Cen tal states, led by Texas, will in tease from 23 percent in the 970s to 20.6 percent this de- :adt because of plentif ul energy K^Hurces, good roads and yhools, and the large Hispanic xtpulation which has a relative- y high birth rate. IHflll^Bhe two expect the popula- iplin the east-south C lent ml re- jion to increase I rom 11.a pot ent in the 1970s to 28 percent in Be 1980s because of a high rate )f ■rth, low death rate and \ ir- ually no tendency of lesidents @ migrate. , In the Pacific region then pre- ioJob^lici California will grow less apidly because of high costs, di- siftshing possibilities for high iross n<ome, scarce water and other ponsorttBt s population de- severa! lsltv ' In the east-north Central re gion, modest population grow th s ItKely to turn to a decline dur- ngthe 1990s because of lagging mfustrial output and a scarcity af jobs. In New England, they pre dicted continuing modest growth as high technology in dustries prosper. | The political implications of diese changing patterns will be greater competition for national said resources among regions, they " l!l ' said :n Hiom^H es, 18, m-w: d e releastf lay, bui: it —aboul! •cl. Lais® Jobs bill benefits dry up |i United Press International WASHINGTON — House igeach ind Senate negotiators who be- voicech! gan Monday to reconcile diffe rent versions of a multibillion- use) aMbllar jobs bill are working think Mgainst a deadline that could lersjusi :em|)orarily delay unemploy- ■r, 15,s»cnem benefits in 27 states. saiclhei®|rhe Labor Department had wrong, >aid its trust fund that lends i other nioney to bankrupt state unem ployment compensation pools ti Ki. • had only enough money to last ea rn th ; -hrough Monday, and the jobs rill contains $5 billion to revive he fund. fiffThere was a possibility of de- ■ayed checks because even if the ^ t ronlerence committee agreed | Y' Monday, final congressional ac- 1 don is not due until today at the earliest. The bill would then go r] President Reagan for his sign- 1 / attire. ■Administration aides are in the conference session trying to work it down to Reagan’s target d frofl 1 )f $4 3 billion from the Senate n'k- figure of'$5.2 billion and the erage 1 Rouse figure of $4.9 billion. . The House bill targets about s of 1' $2B billion to areas that had 90 cense t ' pefeent of the national unem- sstcost- p] 0 Yment rate during the past ce m 12j4nonths, mostly on a county- I ga s|lil by-county basis. , i-The Senate bill targets $1.2 ajore' 11 billion to counties with unem- hani" ployment above 9.4 percent high e! during most of last year. It id lab’ targets another $500 million to -Ijstates with the highest unem- A e x P^ ! ployment. itywh 1 ^■fhe Senate cut out $450 mil- jrance lion in House-approved money ngiy foi Small Business Administra- it wh er tion and Economic Develop- sastin meat Administration construc tion grants. 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