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
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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. Siegel
sees the figure ns "being closer
to 13 per cent in 1080" because
of the current rate of drop, which
has slackened somewhat since
Lainpmnn made his forecasts.
Siegel said that l.nmpman is
expected to discuss most of the
same issues the panel discussed
while he is at the University, ib
is expected to pay particular at
tention to extension of unem
ployment benefits and the "nega
tive income tax" in his discus
sions.
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