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University Daily Kansan
Second Section
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
People in farm belt hungry
The Associated Press
BOSTON — In 150 counties across the United States, including some in Missouri, Iowa and other farm belt states, large numbers of Americans do not have enough to eat, said a report.
The authors of the report expressed surprise that so many of the country's hungriest counties are in the Mississippi Valley and Great Plains states. The report was issued Monday by the Harvard University School of Public Health and the Physicians Task Force on Hunger in America.
The report said that much of the problem was that federal assistance programs failed to reach the needy, and that the important variable was food stamps.
A total of 668,000 people were found
to be eligible for food stamps but not receiving them.
The Physicians Task Force on Hunger, which compiled the study, also had issued a general report last year on hunger in America, calling malnutrition a growing epidemic that left up to 20 million people in the United States chronically underfed.
In the follow-up study, hunger counties were defined as those in which more than 20 percent of the residents lived below the federally defined poverty level — now set at $10,609 for a family of four — and in which fewer than one-third of the eligible residents actually received food stamps.
In Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the country, the study found no hunger counties because of wide distribution of food stamps, while relatively prosperous Texas had 29.
the highest of any state. Eureka County in Nevada was rated the worst with only 1.7 percent of the needy receiving food stamps.
In all, 150 hunger counties, representing about 5 percent of all counties, were found in 24 states, 13 of them in the Plains or Mississippi Valley — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
Professor Larry Brown of the Harvard School of Public Health, who is chairman of the Physicians Task Force, said the results would be used later this year to guide field investigations into why food stamp participation varies so widely.
Justices to hear maternity case
United Press International
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, tackling sex discrimination from a new angle, agreed Monday to decide whether a state law that requires a four-month maternity leave for female workers discriminates against males.
The justices will hear arguments next term in an appeal by a California Federal Savings and Loan, which says that the state law gives preferential treatment to women and could lead to a return to the era of women's protective laws and approved sex discrimination.
State attorneys, however, counter that the company's argument "ignores the fact that the statute merely eliminates a substantial penalty that only women face — loss of their jobs due to pregnancy disability."
The debate over pregnancy leave
has widened in recent years, as both Congress and state legislatures have moved to enact provisions to protect women's jobs.
Some states — California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Montana — have adopted laws giving special treatment to pregnant workers.
The Montana law is awaiting Supreme Court action and has drawn criticism from both the Reagan administration and women's groups.
The groups, including the National Organization for Women and the League of Women Voters, said that unless leave policies were sex-neutral, women would be discriminated against by employers who were reluctant to hire them because they would have to grant them special leave.
In Congress, Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., has proposed a national policy requiring employers to give both men and women four
months unpaid leave after the birth of a child.
Baby expert T. Berry Brazilon has testified in Congress that the United States was the only industrialized country that did not guarantee maternity leave.
The California maternity leave dispute pivots on provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans sex discrimination, and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, which requires employers to treat pregnancy and childbirth the same as other disabilities.
In 1978, California passed its own pregnancy protection law requiring employers to grant up to four months of leave to pregnant workers and to reinstate them at the end of that period.
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