Page 12 University Daily Kansan, September 23. 1983
Medicaid use falls 4.9 percent
Families use less federal aid
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The number of households getting help from four major federal aid programs dipped slightly last year, with a large decline in those using Medicaid, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
In a report on non-cash benefits for which low income or asset levels are a prerequisite, the bureau reported 14,615,000 households got aid from one or more programs in 1982, a drop of 49,000, or 0.3 percent, from 1981.
The bureau said there were as 91,800 households nationally in 2016.
It said the non-cash benefits paid in 1982 had an estimated market value of $51.2 billion, and exceeded by more than 2-to-1 the level of cash public assistance. The principal non-cash benefit programs are Medicaid, food stamps, subsized housing and free or reduced-price school lunches.
ABOUT HALF THE households getting non-cash benefits last year had incomes below the poverty level of $9,862 for a family of four. In 1981, the figure was 47 percent, and the poverty level was $9,287.
The number of households with one or more members covered by Medi-
caird kill 4.9 percent, dropping from 8,487,000 households in 1981 to 8,068,000 in 1982. Medicaid helps pay for health care for the needy, aged, blind and disabled, and for low-income families with children.
Use of three other major programs, said the report, was up, but increases in food stamp and housing aid were not statistically significant.
The number of households getting free or reduced price school lunches was up 5.2 percent, to just over 5.6 million. The increase for food stamps was 1 percent, to nearly 9 percent. The increase of households using publicly owned or subsidized house rose 3.5 percent to 3,158,000 in 1982.
THE BUREAUS SURVEY also showed that 69.4 million households got at least one non-cash benefit in 1982 that was not dependent upon income or assets, such as Medicare, regular-price school lunches, and employer-provided pension or health care plans.
A total of 89 percent of all households got some kind of benefit, regardless of whether it was dependent upon income or assets, said the bureau.
The bureau previously reported that the number of households with incomes below the poverty level rose from 14 percent in 1981 to 14.5 percent in 1982. These poverty figures reflect only cash income.
Other highlights of the report:
In March, the bureau said that if non-cash benefits were counted as income, the number of poor would fall between 12 percent and 42 percent, depending upon the valuation method used.
—NINE PERCENT OF all households got food stamps in 1982, including 26 percent of black households, 19 percent of Hispanic households, and 31 percent of households maintained by women.
—Free or reduced-price school lunches were received by children in 22 percent of all households with school age children. About 48 percent of households maintained by women with children in school got the benefit.
—About 11 percent of the 29.4 million rent-occupied households were in public or other subsidized housing in March 1983.
—Of the 8.1 million households with Medicaid coverage, 29 percent had a householder age 65 or older and 37 percent had a woman with no husband present.
Jayhawk Boulevard closes for repair
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
Most of jayhawk Boulevard will be closed tomorrow morning to allow construction crews to begin the final phase of a street resurfacing project, the associate director of facilities operations said yesterday.
Jayhawk Boulevard, from the Chi
Omega Fountain to 13th Street, will be
closed tomorrow from about 7 a.m.
until the crews finish applying an
asphalt overlay, said the director,
Robert Porter.
Workers will finish the project next Saturday morning by applying new asphalt to an area around Nassim Road, near Robinson Center, he said.
So far, most of the work has been done at night to avoid conflict with pedestrians and automobiles. Parking
IN THE FIRST phase of the project, that began Monday, crews from Fahey Construction Co. stripped asphalt about 1/12 inches deep from the streets in
on Jayhawk Boulevard after 8 p.m. has been restricted all week.
"We're re-laying the asphalt on these particular Saturdays because there is no football-game traffic, so there's almost no traffic to buck." Porter said. It was work that was needed. The team had already had badly. And in the past, we'd never done a project that would such permanence.
"In the past, every year or so we'd just chip-seal it — put a cosmetic coat of oil on and roll the gravel into it. This time we cut down the asphalt to a thickness of $15 per square foot. The streets have frozen, then in the summer, expanded and cracked."
PORTER SAID THAT the repair job was expected to last five to seven years. He said that the project would cost about $50,000.
John Wolfe, a KU Police Department sergeant involved with Parking Services, said that no automobiles had been towed for parking illegally since parking was restricted on Jayhawk Boulevard, but that KUPD expected possible traffic problems this weekend.
Gene Springer, an official with Asphalt Improvement Co., the company that will lay down the asphalt, said that the laying of the asphalt base would go smoothly if the temperature was above 40 degrees.
"It's a weekend. During the week, everyone disappears at 8 p.m., but we have lots of traffic on weekends and we don't want to open. We expect a lot of complaints."
"Any colder than that and it wouldn't pan out. But the hotter the weather, the better. It just doesn't like the cold," he said.
"It's going to be a mess," he said
PORTER SAID THAT he would favor refinishing all of the university's
"We need to do this to all of them," he said. "The problem is the money. We only did two this year. We'd like to re-do all of our streets in the future. This is an expenditure that would be a welcome addition to the budget.
"This is more permanent, but it's not
the project where you just
leave out the bed."
He said that resurfacing all of the university's streets would cost approximately $225,000.
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Committees to study needs of Union under $4 million renovation project
HE SAID THE committees should avoid writing reports that were simply unrealistic "shopping lists" of changes that the Union couldn't afford.
students, faculty or administrators, use the Union in some way." Long said.
Four committees have been formed to write reports on the needs of the Kansas Union, thus completing a preliminary step toward Union renovation, the director of the Union said last night.
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"The reports will be the basis for shaping the look as well as the life of the Kansas Union in the years to come," Long said.
Each of the four committees has an important responsibility in assessing the needs of one of four areas in the Union, James Long, the director, told members of the Memorial Corporation Board, which manages the Kansas and Burge Unions. The total renovation is expected to cost about $4 million.
The Kansas Union renovation is part of a larger plan for the campus that might include building a continuing expansion in the Union and expanding parking space.
Allen L. Wiechert, University director for facilities planning, said that parking space on campus had been
The Union administration has set a tentative schedule for the renovation plans.
"All of us, whether we are alumni,
By the Kansan Staff
The Memorial Corporation Board meets four times a year and held its scheduled meeting in August, but Union administrators had a special meeting last night with the board members to discuss the Union renovation plans.
THE COMMITTEE REPORTS should be ready in December; a master plan in February 1984; a review of the master plan by the Corporation Board in March 1984; a review of the plan by facilities planning in April 1984; and a master plan should be in the hands of the Board of Regents in June 1984.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A former high school football star and "every-body's buddy" told a congressional hearing yesterday that he used to go home every night and "cry and pray that I would learn how to read."
Craig Payne, now 20 and a janitor,
said he was promoted from one grade
to the next even though "I couldn't do
any work in class.
Different views on U.S. quality of education offered during Senate subcommittee hearing
"I always sat in class just dreaming
that somebody someone would help me and
help me."
After two years of private tutors, Payne is now reading on a sixth grade level. He was among four Washington-area young people who testified at a congressional hearing on the quality of America's schools.
"I think this panel of witnesses will be as helpful as any we will hear from," said Sen. Robert Stafford, R-Vt., chairman of a Senate education subcommittee that has seen a parade of educators in recent months.
Stafford scheduled the series of hearings following a scathing report card on public schools last spring by the Reagan administration's National Commission on Excellence in Education.
EACH PERSON offered a perspective of the classroom. A few even offered recommendations, such as stricter teachers and more homework.
PAYNE AND MS. Johnson are enrolled in a community-funded education program. He told the panel: When I got to the tenth grade, I began to woken about my future. It was a star football player and everybody's buddy."
Payne was joined by Linda Johnson, 24, a high school dropout who is on a break with her two children; Dat Duquette, 19, and Amanda Honor Society, and Antonio King, 17, a
student council president.
Reading his prepared testimony in a halting voice, he said, "What no one knew was that I would go home every night, get down on my knees and cry and pray that I would learn how to read."
Ms. Johnson said that before she dropped out of high school in the 11th grade after getting pregnant, "I just sat in class with the other kids who couldn't read. No one was helping us, so all we did was play around."
Congresswoman cites 'gender gap' in benefits
By United Press International
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WASHINGTON — The relatively low monthly Social Security benefits paid to many women constitute a "gender gap in economic justice." Mary Rose Mays, the former president and vicepresident,
"Ninety out of 100 women who are covered by the Social Security system can expect to experience some form of termination during retirement," she said.
OAKAR and a series of witnesses, including candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination Rep. John Glenn, D-Ohio, and Rep Alan Cranston, D-Calif., said the inequity could be eliminated if the government began using an "earnings sharing" calculator Social Security benefits.
then receive equal monthly benefits.
Oakar, head of a House task force on Social Security and women, called for approval of legislation to end inequities that she said penalize 10 million women by paying them lower monthly benefit checks than men.
Louis Enoff, acting deputy Social Security commissioner, said the agency is reviewing "serious questions about whether the Social Security system is as equitable and responsive as it should be for women." He said experts are considering proposed solutions, including earnings sharing.
The current law provides for equal treatment of men and women working under the same conditions and receiving the same benefits. In remarks delivered to the taks force.
Under that plan, benefits would be determined according to the combined earnings of a husband and wife during their marriage. Both spouses would
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