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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1966)
Lamoman Topics: Unemployment, Taxes By MAXINE ELLIOTT News Editor Possible programs for exten sion of unemployment insurance and a “negative income tax” are expected to be major topics when Robert Lampman of the Univer sity of Wisconsin speaks at next week’s ASUO P9verty Conference. That was the consensus of panel members on a PL-3 tele cast Monday. The panel included Barry Siegel, associate professor of economics; Victor AfTolter. graduate assistant in economics; and Albert Culver, graduate as sistant in economics. A1 Depen brock, freshman in political sci ence, moderated the discussion Using Lampman’s definition of poverty as the condition in which any family has less than $3,000 income yearly, Siegel said that 18 per cent of the people in the United States could be classed •poor.” Half of these reside in the South, necessitating, Siegel said, "some conventional ap proaches to the problem which are applicable to regional situa tions.” Minimum Wages Foremost among these would be raising the minimum wage. But Culver pointed to sudden Campus Briefs Orides will hold an open meeting at 8 p m today in the Orides lounge un the first floor of Gerlinger Hall. All interested co eds are invited to- attend. Senator Mike Donahue will hold office hours in 302 SU from 2-3 p m. to<lay. Any interested student is invited to come and discuss his individual criticisms, problems, questions, or opinions on issues relevant to any phase of student life. Frosh Snohall decoration committee will : hold an important meeting at 7 pro. today j in the SU Ballroom. General Panhellenie will meet for dinner ' at 5:15 p.m. Thursday at the Chi Omega house. Social chairmen roust attend, tall for dinner reservations. “Raisin in the Sun” will he shown at 7 and 9 p ro. Thursday in 15U Science by the SU Moyie Committee. Admission is 50 cents. Petitions are available m M tor those interested in working on World Uni versity Service Week to be held the first of spring term. Mach help is needed. For more information call Alice Tsunenaga, ext. 2161. Skull and Dagger will meet at 6 p.m. to day in the SU. A.C.E.I. will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Education Building. There will lie a compulsory Kwama meet ing at 4 p.m. today in the SU. There will lie a Frosh 20i) meeting for all girls interested in becoming members from 6:30-7:30 p.m. today in 172 Common wealth. Ski Quacks wishing to take cars to Mt. Bachelor, Hoodoo, or Willamette ski areas and those needing rides meet in the SU between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Also, sign-up for the Mt. Bachelor overnight Jan. 29-30 will be considered. A deposit will not lie necessary till next Tuesday. Citizens for Viet Nam will meet at 8 p.m. today in the SU. The badminton club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today in the west gym of the men’s PE building. All those interested in bad minton for recreation or competition are invited to come. Amphibians will meet at 7 p.m. today at Leighton Pool. Oregana Copy Staff will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Oregana Offices, M 110 SU. A Chapel Service for the University community will be held at 9 p.m. today at Christian House, 736 East 16th. Everyone is invited to participate in this service sponsored by the fellowship of Christian and American Baptist students. Campus Chapel, a worship service for the University community will be at 9:30 p.m. today at Wesley Foundation, 1236 Kincaid. Leader will be Bill Brockhaus. The ASUO Senate academic and cultural committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the SU. Chi Delta Phi, women’s creative and literary honorary, will meet informally at 7 p.m. Thursday at the New World Coffee House. All interested persons are invited to attend. A manuscript of original work will be read. The role of the science advisor in for eign affairs will be the topic of E. M. J. ^Kretzmann at 3 p.m. today in the World Affairs Briefing Center in the SU. Pi Lambda Theta will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the SU. Oregon Daily Emerald The Oregon Daily Emerald is oublished five times in September and five days a week during the academic year, except during examination periods, by the Student Publi cations Board of the University of Oregon. Second-class postage paid at Eugene, Ore goo 97403. Subscription rates $5 per year. $2 per term. unemployment among migrants when the minimum agriculture wage was raised and said, ‘‘Some of these people discovered they just weren’t worth 15 cents more j an hour.” According to Culver, a more reasonable solution, or at least partial solution, would be the re verse: if wages went down and persons in low income brackets received subsidies, the labor force could be increased. “I can't see subsidizing to the $3,000 level,” Affolter said. “Sub sidies can be an incentive not to work.” But Culver said the main point is that subsidies aren't perma nent. “Somehow we must have a provision for those persons who are only temporarily down,” Cul ver said. “Individualistic Society” Siegel pointed to the fact that "people who give subsidies to the poor want to help spend it.” He said that Lampman sees the U S. as an individualistic society where men can make their own choices Job Opportunities Students may contact the Placement Office in Susan Camp bell Hall for further information about the following job oppor tunities. Jan. 20—Internal Revenue Ser vice. Accounting, bus. ad. with ac counting for audit and intelli gence LLB-Estate Tax Examin er. Jan 21—Texaco. Lib. arts, bus. ad. for sales. Jan. 25—Gordon Nelson of the Ft. Simcoe Job Corps Center will be on campus from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m., to talk with anyone who might be interested in the civil service career opportunities for college graduates available at this Job Corps Center. They have openings in teaching, counselling, administration, recreation, resi dential programs, and work pro grams. and said Lampman would not advocate any type of public as sistance where the government would help spend the money. Siegel said that Lampman sees the major problem among the poor today as “getting the 18 per cent to the other side.” lie said, “we can't be content with pushing them a little way over." Accordingly, Siegel sees pro grams of public work and tax revisions as being a part of Lampman's philosophy. The "negative income tax” idea has been advanced by Lampman before. He is expected to dis cuss it in length while at the University for the conference. The basic idea of such a revision lies in taking a percentage of the $20 billion in unused exemptions and giving it to those too poor to take advantage of their oxemp tions, in the form of subsidies. Hard-Core Croup There always will be a certain percentage of those in that posi tion. Siegel said. According to Lampman, "there is a hard-core group which will remain poor be cause of race, age and the like The percentage is declining, however. In 1947. 32 per cent of all families in the U S. fell into the under $3,000 yearly category. The figure is only slightly over half that now, and has declined three per cent since 1H02- a very rapid drop," Siegel said. Using Lampman's forecasts, only 10 per cent of the U.S. popu lation in 1980 will l>e poor. 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