women are on welfare.]
one measure, LBJ's War on Poverty was a success. If poverty is calculated counting income, transfer payments, and in-kind benefits (food programs, medical care, housing), the rates were 10.1 percent in 1968,6.2 percent in 1972, and 6.1 percent in 1980. But, says Murray, the goal of the War on Poverty was to help people escape "the dole."
In retrospect, he concludes, economic growth proved to be the only real antidote to poverty. "If the War on Poverty is construed...
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President Reagan's proposal to turn over major federal programs to the states has been attacked as an attempt to institutionalize "benign ne- glect" of the nation's poor. Guzzardi, a Fortune editor, offers two cheers for Reagan's New Federalism, though he doubts that the states should be given all the responsibility the President intends to assign them.
Today's statehouses...
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I. A. Lewis and William Schneider, in Public Opinion (April-May 1982), % American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Public opinion pollsters called the 1980 presidential election a "horse race" right up to election day. Yet a "closet Reagan vote" gave the Republican a comfortable 10 percent margin of victory. The public, it appears, concealed its intentions.
Pollsters have been aware of the problem for years,...
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inaccurate answers are simply due to memory lapses.
Moreover, attitudes expressed in polls are not always a reliable indi-
cator of behavior. During the early 1930s, researcher Richard LaPiere
crossed the United States with a Chinese couple to measure discrimina-
tion. Only one of the 251 restaurants and other public facilities they
visited refused them service. Yet when LaPiere later mailed question-
naires to the proprietors, 90 percent stated they...
the pipeline, says Stern, is to Western unity; the episode is a "classic example of how not to manage an alliance."
"The Marine Corps Faces the Future" by
Gung Ho,Again Michael Wright, in The New York Times Magazine (JU& 20, 1982), 229 West 43rd St., New York, N.Y. 10036.
Its ordeal during the Vietnam era "nearly left the Marine Corps a burnt-out case," writes Wright, a New York Times editor. Now the Corps' fortunes have improved.
In 1965-73, the Marines lost...
former "leathernecks" in Con- gress. Today, the Corps is the only military service to enjoy a legislated mini- mum force structure.
are on their way to the troops.
With a revived mission and better weaponry to back up its tradi- tional esprit, Wright concludes, the Marine Corps now again seems likely to survive as the nation's proud "all-American anachronism" among the services.
"A House Divided" Adam Zagorin, in
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Arab na- tions in 1979, less than 20 percent has been dispensed. The public debt has climbed to over $1 billion, more than an entire year's budget.
Meanwhile, the black market economy is booming, spurred civil war factionalism. About one-quarter of Lebanon's 400,000 workers are employed in the "underground" economy. The hashish trade reaps some $1 billion annually. Other smuggling reduced government customs duties collections by 40 percent during the first half of 1981. Lebanon's rival...
cash reserves. Audits are not required, and no governmental authority stands ready to make good on de- positors' claims if a Eurobank fails.
At present, outstanding loans far outweigh the Eurobanks' reserves, Zevin writes. Although loans to multinationals have been repaid out of profits, some $500 billion in loans to developing countries remain unpaid-and largely unpayable. Interest on these loans totals $60 bil- lion annually. Eurobanks handle the problem "rolling over" the debt-making...
only 54 percent. In 1975, payments took 21 percent of monthly income; 1980,30 percent. Fewer families could muster the financial resources required to qualify for a mortgage.
Because today's large pool of young adults still needs housing, Browne believes the market will recover as soon as interest rates de- cline. But the boom of the 1970s, she says, is over for good.
Trustbusters "Reagan's Antitrust Line-Common
Sense or an Invitation to Corporate Change Course Abuse?" by Michael Wines,...
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petitive practices. In fact, says National Journal correspondent Wines, the policy changes may be more psychological than legal.
The government's two chief antitrust watchdogs, the Justice De- partment's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade commission (FTC), have cut back their prosecutions for vertical concentration (when a manufacturer owns the companies that supply components of its products), as well as for "predatory" price-cutting and c...