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programs. A compilation by a national magazine, citing Budget Bureau figures, showed Federal cash outlays for welfare programs nearly tripling since President Eisenhower took over from President “Truman'.
Without debating the merits of any particular program, it may be of interest to note that the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1960, is expected tQ see disbursement by the Federal Government of checks totaling more than $20 bilion in what might be grouped generally as social welfare activities. More than $11 y4 billion, for example, will go out in old-age-insurance pensions. Disability pensions will add more than $600 million, and civil service and railroad pensions will account for nearly $2 billion more. Another $2 billion will ^ be paid out for public assistance—“relief”, and more than 2yj billion for unemployemnt benefits and efforts to find jobs for the unem
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