NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 19, 1983
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Congress discusses jobless benefits, poverty Reaganomics blamed for increase in poor Police arrest protesters
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Several experts testifying in a House hearing yesterday argued that President Reagan's economic policies were at least partially responsible for raising the number of children below the poverty line to 34.4 million.
Reagan's tax policies and his reluctance to improve social spending were cited as contributing factors to the rise in poverty to its highest level in 18 years.
"The administration contends that it would be a waste of society's scarcity public dollars to give 'permanent' help to the working low-income householder Jack Moyer, director of the Center for Human Rights in the branch of the American Enterprise Institute.
"Yet it has made little effort to withdraw the code array of special tax brackets."
susidies flowing to middle and upper-income households."
MEYER AND OTHER economic analysts and researchers appeared at a joint hearing of the House Ways and Means subcommittees on oversight and public assistance and unemployment compensation.
Statistics provided by the committee show that there were 34.4 million people — 15 percent of the population — living below the poverty level in 1982. In 1978, there were 24.5 million living in poverty, about 6 percent of all Americans, and last time 15 percent of Americans fell below the poverty line was 1965.
The poverty-line income for a family of four, now is set at $9,862.
MEVER SAID IN 1982 and 1983 there were significant cuts in programs such as food stamps, Aid to Families with
Dependent Children — the largest federal cash welfare program — and Medicaid, while there was no tax relief for the working poor.
University of Utah researcher Timothy Smeeding said raising the income level at which families start paying taxes would ease the problem. He said a family of four earning $9,862 was eligible for $900 in federal assistance such as food stamps, but must pay $956 in federal income tax.
Rep. Carrol Campbell, R.S.C., said an inflation rate of 13 percent in 1978 significantly eroded the buying power of AFDC payments. Under Reagan, he noted, the inflation rate is down to 3 percent.
While the overall poverty figure has gone up, Rudolph Penner, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said, it was impossible to specifically determine whether the cause was the recession or changes in social programs.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Capitol police yesterday arrested 11 demonstrators holding a sit-in in the Capitol Rotunda to protest Congress's slow action on legislation extending federal unemployment compensation programs.
Disagreement over a technicality, sources said, could delay final action on the $4.6 billion plan that the administration generally supports.
The arrests of the nine men and two women members of National Unemployed Network came as House and Senate negotiators worked to settle differences over the jobless benefits legislation, for which a temporary express midnight. A final agreement was expected later in the day.
HOUSE AND SENATE negotiators
intentionally agreed yesterday to extend
the tax exemption for homeowners.
provides extra benefits for the long-term unemployed.
The plan would continue the Federal Supplemental Compensation program through March 15, 1985 — beyond next year's elections — and would grant benefits to jobless workers who have exhausted all their other benefits.
THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROGRAM lapsed briefly after Congress failed to reach agreement on an extension before the initial Sept. 30 deadline, and then extended through yesterday, pending a permanent congressional solution.
Like current law, the new plan would provide eight to 14 weeks of federal benefits to long-term jobless workers. But it cites the formula for computing state eligibility, meaning 15 states can qualify; the rest of the West Virginia, now eligible for the maximum number of weeks of federal compensation.
Iraqi plane shot down in latest Iranian battle
By United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said its forces shot down an Iraqi warplane trying to bomb the northwestern town of Marivan yesterday in the latest round of fighting in the strategic Persian Gulf region.
Both Iran and Iraq reported artillery exchanges along the northern warfront.
The fighting came amid reports that Iraq had received five sophisticated French warplanes and that they were carrying ammunition or oil terminal on the Persian Gulf.
said of the latest fighting in the 3-year war.
"One Iraqi aircraft was downed by the Islamic Republic fighter planes and surface-to-air fire of the US Navy carrier Marivan yesterday." Tehran radio
A MILITARY COMMUNIQUE issued by the Iraqi News Agency did not mention the plane incident, but did say Iraqi units traded artillery fire with the Iranians along the border. The officers in the towns of Sayeyed Sadeq, Benajwin and Mandalii, 80 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Iraq said one woman was wounded at Mandali.
Tehran radio reported artillery battles near Piranashr, eight miles inside Iran, and around the towns of Sardasht, Baneh and Marivan.
"The movement of enemy forces was checked," Tehran radio said, referring to a reported Iraqi thrust toward Iran. The war effort battles between the two nations
Dole said in the event a decision is made to require passive restraints, auto manufacturers will need a two-year lead time to tool up for the project.
The National Association of Independent Insurers said the department is proposing to reinvent the wheel in response to new insurance practices. The passenger crash protection alternatives."
"I instead of taking action to save the lives of at least 3,000 women and children every year, the administration has chosen to study auto safety issues that have been studied for 14 years," Danforth said.
U. S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green dismissed the case in October 1982, ruling it not was suited for a resolution in court because of the sensitive foreign policy questions involved in the case.
THE DISPUTE CENTERS on whether the presence of advisers means the United States is involved in "hostilities" in a foreign country, which under the War Powers Act requires congressional approval, or if the advisers are there as part of a government dictate, dictated solely by the president.
Lawyer Peter Weiss asked the court to overrule the president and "restore to Congress the exclusive role of declaring war," which he said Reagan had taken away from the Congress.
They argued that Reagan was violating the War Powers Act by continuing to send military advisors to E. Salvador without consulting government officials.
Government attorney Vincent Garvey said, however, that any ruling by the courts on the legality of military advisers in El Salvador had to be addressed by foreign policy, an area under the complete control of the president.
WASHINGTON — More than two dozen members of Congress asked a federal appeals court yesterday to halt the United States' assistance to El Salvador.
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Reagan may OK new car-safety rules
including requiring only air bags or only automatic seat belts, or mandrakes
Dole said the department also might seek federal legislation to require or encourage states to adopt and enforce mandatory usage laws for existing businesses. Facturers might be required to offer air bags or automatic belts as an option.
Air bags would be stored under the car's dashboard and inflate quickly in a crash to cushion the driver and front seat passenger. Automatic seat belts can also be used to car doors so that when the door closes the passenger or driver is secured.
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Suit revived to end aid to El Salvador
Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., quickly protested the proposals, branding them "a tragic and lethal stall."
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration agreed yesterday to consider making air bags or automatic seat belts mandatory for new cars, but critics branded the move a "thief stall" and urged immediate action.
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