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DR.AJIT SATURDAY RADIO ADDRESS
Good morning. Today I want to speak directly to the millions of young
people who are trying to decide what to do next in their lives, and to their
parents. I know a lot of young people who are watching this political campaign,
think that all. politicians do is talk, talk, talk. Well, sometimes that's true. But to
you young Americans who have become disillusioned with the political system I
have this message: you have a chance to take matters into your own hands directly help solve your community's problems. Don't just complain - take
action.
Let me be specific. I want to suggest that you take the next year or two or
three and work - full-time -- serving your country. There are a lot of ways you
can do this.
There is no higher form of service than to risk your life for country by
joining the military. Our armed forces continue to need the best of our young to
keep us safe in this ever-changing world. And just as the armed forces continue
to protect our security, they also offer enormous oppommities -- teaching skills, a
sense of discipline and self-respect and providing significant aid for college.
We also face profound challenges here at home - from city streets plagued
by crime and drugs to classrooms where students must learn the skills they need
for tomorrow. At a time of shrinking government, we need citizens to do more.
Young people have the time. talents, ideals and energy to lead the way. ·
One way to serve is through AmeriCorps, the program that I created in
1993 working with Democrats and Republicans alike. AmeriCorps is based on a
simple idea. Like the GI Bill, AmeriCorps rewards personal responsibility with
educational opportunity. In exchange for a full year of service, you receive a
living allowance and nearly $5000 for college, graduate school or vocational
training.
In just two years. more than 45.000 young people have joined AmeriCorps
and worked with groups like Habitat for Htunanjty. Big Brothers and local
conservation corps. Some of this work is back-breaking; just ask some of the
corp~ members who worked with the Red Cross to help families dig out from
floods. But these young people tell me the experience was an adventure that
literally changed their lives. Not only did they earn money for college, they
learned how to be leaders - and learned that they had the power to really help
�their country.
Take Marilyn Concepcion from Providence, Rhode Island. Two years
ago, Marilyn was a high school dropout working on an assembly line. Then she
joined the City Year AmeriCorps program. where she helped renovate a
community center and taught English to elementary students. AmeriCorps helped
Marilyn discover gifts she never knew she had. Now she's a freshman at Brown
University where she's studying to be a doctor. Another young woman named
Michelle Harvey told me how her AmeriCorps team in Kansas City helped close
44 crack houses and keep 175 city blocks free from drug dealers. That"s what we
mean by getting things done .
. High school dropouts and college graduates, black and white, rich and
poor -- working together, side by side, learning from each other, discovering that
we can solve our problems if we only work together across the lines of race and
culture and geography that too often divide us. I'm happy to say that despite a
few political skirmishes, funding for this coming year is now secure and a class
of 25.000 will soon get to work solving problems. I would urge you to consider
joining an AmeriCorps program. Forgive me if I sound like the Recruiter in
Chief now but I'm going to give you all a phone number to calll-800-942-2677.
Or go to the World Wide Web site for the Corporation for National Service -www.cns.gov.
As much as I love the hundreds of local non-profit programs that have
hooked up with AmeriCorps, I have to say there are so many other ways of
giving full-time service to your community. Mo!!Zt religious denominations have
taught the idea that carrying out the true spirit of the Gospels means ministering
directly to the needs of the poor. During my college year!!Z at Georgetown I saw
the importance of service in the Catholic tradition.
One of the most powerful expressions of this impulse is the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps, which also provides opportunitites for rigorous full-time
service. About 500 young men and women- not all Catholic, incidentally-- get
housing, a small living allowance and a chance to do noble work. Amanda
Hayes, from Lancaster Pennsyvlania is spending this year teaching at an
alternative junior high school founded by Dominican nuns. Claire Montgomery
from Seattle is working with the Family Life Ministry in Hartford to help teen
mothers learn how to be good parents and productive citizens.(MORE DETAIL
COMING)
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�And if you want to serve your country by acting as goodwill ambassadors
overseas, you should try what they call "the toughest job you'll ever love" - the
Peace Corps.
The call to service is different for each of us. For some, it simply means
working hard and helping out family and friends in times of need. For others it
means volunteering in your community: tutoring a child. cleaning up a river or
park, or joining a block watch group to help make your neighborhood safer.
Dur1ng the recent debate about welfare, we focused on the obligations of
the poor. Well, all Americans have obligations to their community and country.
Spend a year or two solving problems. You •11 be glad you did and your country
will be grateful.
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RE:
Norm Pattiz
DATE:
January 10, 1996
On January 3, I talked with Norm Pattiz, who has helped us with various initiatives in getting
your message out using radio. He arranged for the radio interview with you and Larry King
several months ago .
.He has a new idea which I think is a good one. He proposes that, sometime within the next two
to three months, perhaps in early March just before the two big Tuesdays of primary season,
Tuesday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 12, you do a live radio broadcast with a panel of talk
radio hosts-- perhaps a half dozen. They would come from around the country. After thirty
to forty-five minutes of conversation with the panel members, the program would then open up
to questions from other talk radio hosts who would be located in several key states. The program
would last an hour and a half.
Norm's contention is, and I agree with him, that we have made some headway in providing an
antidote to the efforts of the right-wing talk show hosts, and that this current proposal would
further demonstrate that the mood of the country and talk radio hosts specifically is changing,
and that we are gaining ground in the talk radio combat. Coming just before the first big
Tuesday of the primaries would be a good hit; it would be nationwide and would reach a large
proportion of the talk radio audience. Norm believes that we can have this conversation on
about a thousand stations. I would be happy to discuss this further with you, as would Norm.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
December 20, 1995
Dear Martin:
Thank you for your note. I appreciate
your suggestion that the January 13th
Presidential radio address be used to push
for ratification of the Chemical Weapons
Convention, and to announce the
declassification. of information pertaining to
our chemical weapons program.
I have forwarded your note to White
House Communications Director Don Baer. I am
sure that he will take all appropriate action
on your suggestion.
Thank you again for writing.
keep in touch.
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PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. CLINTON
RADIO ADDRESS ON THE BUDGET
ROOSEVELT ROOM
November 11, 1995
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�Good morning. At midnight this Monday night,
unless Congress passes legislation to keep the
government running, the federal government will be
required by law to begin shutting down.
For months, the Republicans have made a
consistent threat: if I do not sign legislation cutting
Medicare, education and the environment, they will
plunge the government into default and force it to close
its doors. I do not want to shut down basic government
services to the American people. But I cannot allow
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us to accept extreme budget measures and that would
violate what I believe are our basic values as a nation.
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�A great deal is at stake in this debate. This budget
debate is about whether we will balance our budget -which leaders of both parties support-- in.a way that is
consistent with our fundamental values -- our
responsibility to our parents and to our children; our
determination to provide opportunity for all Americans
to make the most of their lives through good jobs,
education and technology; our obligation to protect the
environment and to keep America the world's strongest
force for peace and freedom, for democracy and
prosperity.
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�This budget debate is about.two very different
futures for America: about whether we will continue to
go forward under our motto, E Pluribus Unum-- out of
many, one -- whether we will continue to unite and
gr~whether we will beccime ;-vided, winnertake-all society.
Today, as I speak with you, the Republicans in
Congress are on the verge of carrying out their threat.
Let me explain how we have come to this juncture and
why it is so important that we stand firm against
measures that would endanger our future.
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�The Republicans proposed to balance the budget in
seven years, but they would get there with deep cuts in
Medicare, education, protection for the environment and
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protecting Medicare, increasing our investment in
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the deadlines established by law for
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@f dle Umtatl ~tatas~ The new
fiscal year started
on October 1. Now it is November 11, Veterans Day,
and they still haven't sent me a budget, .even though the
Republicans control both houses of Congress.
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passed budgets to reduce the deficit sa time. This year,
the Republicans have not come close to resolving thetn.O\JJY\
differences in their overall budget plan between the
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Still, there have been times in our history when our
budget process runs late. But when that happens, the
differing sides, regardless of party, usually agree to fmd
a fair, unbiased way to keep the government going and
to enable the United States to pay its bills while the
broader debate about budget priorities goes on.
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they passed and I signed a simple straightforward bill to
keep the government running and prevent America from
going into default. That was the serious and responsible
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thing to do.t~~~~~.
Last week, I met with the Republican leadership to
try to find a way again to keep the government open
and from falling into default. As I told them then, we
should balance the budget, but we cannot do it under
the threat of government shutdown and default. But
instead of following the path of reconciliation, they
have gone their own way.
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This week they voted on. an unprecedented aet. On
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Thursday night,~both houses voted~ a'
Hnmadiate 25 percent increase in Medicare premiums
for every single senior citizen on Medicare. That is an
extraordinary act. No Congress in our history has ever
demanded an increase in Medicare premiums as a
condition of keeping the government open. That's
wrong, and I simply won't accept it.
And on this Veterans Day, they have a strange way
of honoring all those men and women who have
sacrificed for our country. Eight million of the senior
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Congress are veterans. And they deserve better.
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condition of keeping the government openk And they
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to a short-cut to default on the full faith and credit of
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I believe we aust fmd a good faithfd keep the
government open and make good on its obligations. So I
have asked my Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, to meet
with the Republican and Democratic leaders of
Congress this afternoon. I have instructed him to
present them with straightforward ideas to keep the
government open, just as we did in September and just
as Congress has done dozens of times before. But I will
not allow them to impose new, immediate cuts in
Medicare, education and the environment as a condition
to keeping the government open.
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I believe we can resolve these differences without
hurting the American people or our future. All around
us, we see evidence that American is on the move. Our
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our budget in a way that is consistent with our
fundamental values, and to do it without threats and
partisan rancor. I believe we can do that. So let's get it
done.
Thank you for listening.
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The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
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It has been one year since you signed into law the Gun Free Schools Act (GFSA), and
I am pleased to report on the tremendous progress that has been made in
implementing this legislation throughout the wuntry. In response to this Act, 49
States have enacted State-wide laws or pollcles which mandate the expulsion of
students who bring guns to s~hool. Before enactment of the law, only three States
had similar laws, although none were as strong as the GFSA. A state-by-state update
is attached.
Unfortunately, this report on our success comes at a tin\e when the Congress has
voted to reduce funding for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program by 6()0k from
your $500 million request. As the attached data and examples i~!t~1~w is not
the time for us to retreat from our commitment to our student~ anCftoour schools.
Never have they needed us more, and never has the Congress- been more out of
touch with the needs of children.
Under your leadership I know that we will prevail over the short-sightedness of
Congress and that we will continue to help our schools be safe places for our
children to learn.
Yours sincerely,
Ri~hard
W. Riley
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BACKGRQUNQ ON niB GUN FQE SCHOOLS ACT
Signed into law last October, the GFSA requires States to pass laws requiring local
ecluc:atlonal agencies to expel for at least one year students who bring a weapon to
school. The GFSA provides flexibility by permitting a local educational agenc:y's
chief administering officer to modify the expulsion requirement on a case-by·case
basis.
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The GFSA also requires that local educational agencies ref~~-'etudents found to have
brought a weapon to school to the criminal justlc:e or juvenile delinquency system.
LEA's were to develop these policies upon passage of the GFSA. States that have
not passed and enacted legislation consistent with the provisions of the GFSA by
October 20, 1995 risk losing funding from the Improving America's Schools Act.
The Department of Education is working with the three States that have
outstanding issues to come into full compliance with the law. .
�THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Oc~abe~
22, 1994
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%mplementatiOD of the CuJl'~'Fne Schools Act
of 1914, and the Safe aD4 »~·~e Sdhoala
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Our sahoola are inc:easingly.plagued by violence and crime that
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is abhorrent to all law-allidin; citizens. It .is of paramount.
im,portanae that this Nation' e schools " aafe, d.isciplinec!, and
conducive to lea%ni:ng.
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Several laws »assed thia year will promote ou: effort to make
schools safe for learning. 'rhe Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994
prov1ces tbat within on• year, every State recei~ing Pede~al
a~a for elementa%)' and secon4a:y education must have a law
~equiring school dist~icts to expel f:om achcol for at le•st
one year any student who·brings a gun to school, subject to
certain exceptionsA The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and
Communities Act funds comprehensive Violence prevention
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p:rog"%"ams, including- those that t):ll:nmce school sec:urityA
To ensure vigorous ~!arcement, I am directin~ you to coordinate
implementation of theue aati-viclenee measures with appropriate
. local authorities to the maximum extent possible. Your collaborative efforts aho~d include the States, school districts,
law enforcement aganQiea, ana educators. In the case of the
Gun-Free Schools Act, anforeement should inelude termination
cf Pederal assistance if you determine that a State is not in
compl.ianc:e.
You shcula report to me in writing by Deoember 31 em the
specific steps
you
have taken to implement these statutes.
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Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior
Survelllance Study (March 1995) indicates:
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Nearly 1 in 25 students (4%) missed at least .one day of school during the 30
days before the survey because they felt unsafe at school or going to or from
school.
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More than 1 in 10 students (12%) carried a weapon.Q~.~l property during
the 30 days before the survey.
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One out of 14 (7o/o) were threatened or injurecl with a weappn on school
property during the 12 months before the survey. When the parameters of
weapon carrying extended beyond the school it was found that nearly one
fourth (22%) of students nationwide had carried a weapon (gun, knife, or
club) during the 30 days preceding the survey.
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Nationwide 7.9% of students had carried a Gun during the 30 days preceding
the survey.
Data from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study requested by the
Department of Education on violent deaths associated with school:
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105 violent, school-associated violent deaths in the last two yeats were
identified.
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Twenty-nine (29%) of the fatal injuries happened inside a school building,
another thirty·seven (37%) occurred outdoors on school property, and the
remaining thirty-six (36%) occurred off campus.
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These deaths included 81 homicides, 19 suicides, and 5 unintentional firearm·
related deaths.
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65.3% of the victims were students and 11% were teachers or staff. The·
victims (23~o) were community members killed on school
property.
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The victims ranged in age from 4 to 62 years, with a median age of 16.
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Firearms were used in a sizeable majority of school-associated fatalities (n=81,
77.1%).
While the above data is for the 1992·93 and 1993..94 school years, we know that in
the few short months of this school year there have already been four homicides in
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�STATE BY STATE
IMPL&MI!NTATION UPDATI!
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�STATE BY STATE IMPLEHINTATJQN
UPPATE
State
Date
ltat.ue
Aaaeeament
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Signed
8/95
Conforms to Law
Alaska
Signed
5/95
conforms to Law
Arizona
Signed
4/95
Conforms to Law
Arkansas
Signed
3/95
conforms 'to Law
California
Passed
9/95
Conforms to Law
Colorado
Signe4
3/94
Outstanding
lsaue
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to be consistent with federal law i.e. , to mean a calendar
year, because of :vear-zoound school in some pa:z:ta of the
State.
connecticut
Signed·
Delaware
SBA :Policy Only
Conforms to Law
D.C.
Signed
11/94
Conforms to Law
Florida
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
Georgia
Signed
4/95
conforms to Law
Hawaii
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
Idaho
Signed
3/95
Conforms to Law
Illinois
Signed
8/95
Conforms to Law
Indiana
Signed
7/95
conforms to Law
Iowa
signed
5/95
conforms to Law
Kansas
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
xeneuaky
Requested and receiveel Waiver ... Legialatur.e
in
eeaeion until Janua~y 1996.
Louisiana
signed
7/94
Conforms to Law
Maine
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
Maryland
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
7/95
Conforms to Law
not
�Massaehusetts
Signed
10/94
Conforms to t.aw
Massachusetts has supplemented their existing law with. a State
policy. Together their policy/law are generally consistent with
Federal requirements.
Michigan
Signed
l/95
conforms to Law
Michigan is in process of modifying law to permit exceptions to
expulsion.
Minnesota
Signed
5/95
Misaiaa:lppi
Sig11ed
4/95
No time perioCl for
outstandina Issue
expulsio,n provided.
Missouri
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
Montana
Signed
5/95
Conforms to La:w
Nebraska
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
Nevada
Signed
10/95
conforms to Law
N. Hampshire
Signed
7/95
Conforms to Law
N. Jersey
Signed
8/95
Conforms to Law
N. Mexico
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
New York
Signed
7/95
Conforms to Law
N. Carolina
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
N.Dakota
Signed
4/95
Conforms to Law
Ohio
Signed
7/95
conforms to Law
Oklahoma
Signed
5/95
conforms to Law
oregon
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
Penn.
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
Rhode Island
Signed
6/95
Conforms to Law
s. carolina
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
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�s.
cakota
uacay expeJ. 11
Signed
9/95
Outstanding
%aa~e
z-efezos to
etudelltl w!lo .. intentionally bring CJUD.I to ectbool. ••
Lesr:Lalat:Lve aeaaio:a. elided. Mext aeaaicn.\ ~egil'ls aanuazoy
1996. state t:lepa~tment of BduoatioD will in~ to put this
baok on agenda first thing in January.
SBA also, aent out
a letter to LBA' s stating inten.t to be conaiateDt with
l'ec1eral
aftd
11
1\alf exte:a.d
~G)'ODd
8ctJlOOl
J'8a~ 11 ,
Law.
Tennessee
Signed
5/95
Conforms·to Law
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Texas
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
Utah
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
vermont
signed
4/95
conforms to Law
Virginia
Signed
4/95
Conforms to Law
Washington
signed
4/95
Conforms to Law·
w.virginia
Signed
3/95
Conforms to Law
Wisconsin
Passed
9/95
Conforms to Law
Governor has not yet signed bill.
Wyoming
Signed
5/95
Conforms to Law
�QATA FRQM THE FIELD
Sohools have reported fewer weapons and weapon related offenses in
cities that have implemented zero tolerance policies. The
following is data on the seizure of guns from districts that
currently have zero·tolerance policies:
District
93-94
Dade County Public Schools
193
94-95
110
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Detroit Public Schools
81
Milwaukee Public Sohools
19*
New York City schools
35
s•
169
126
Portland Public Schools
48
31
Seattle Public Schools
18
5
St. Louis Public Schools
13**
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**~ossession b,y students
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Schools have reported fewer weapons and weapon related offenses
in cities that have implemented zero tolerance policies. The
following is data on the seizure of guns from districts that
currently have zero tolerance policies:
District
93-94
94-95
Dade County Public Schools
193
110
Detroit Public Schools
81
35
Milwaukee Public Schools
19*
New York City Schools
5*
169
126
Portland Public Schools
48
31
Seattle Public Schools
18
5
St. Louis Public Schools
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Dallas
Dallas' zero tolerance policy was enhanced by a new state law• that went into
effect on May 29 of this year. One sc:hoolln a high crime neighborhood has been
very successful in keeping guns out of school. Between its metal detectors, police
security and zero tolerance policy, there has been only ori.Ef'gun found in school
during the last four years.
Dade County
The school district in Dade County, Florida instituted its zero tolerance for
guns policy during the 1993-94 school year. One student said recently at the County
school board meeting that he isn't as worried that another student is "carrying a
piece," i.e. a firearm.
Detroit
The Detroit zero tolerance policy, which was enhanced by a new state law•
this year, has been praised by principals and teachers alike for its consistent handling
of students who bring firearms to school. One student in particular was expelled
several years ago and then readmitted after spending ten months in an alternative
school program. The Detroit policy proved successful: the student recently lectured
a group of at risk eighth graders on healthy means of conflict resolution and wlll be
graduating next year from the University of Michigan.
KansasCi~
Recently in a Kansas City high school, a student snuck a gun into school by
putting it in his jacket and by not putting the jacket through the metal detector.
Later in the day, when the gun was discovered, the student was immediately
suspended and the school. system began to move for expulsion. The person in
charge of high schools for the school district said that because there is "no wiggle
room" in their zero tolerance policy, quick suspensions such as in this case make a
tremendous impact on students.
"'New state law adopted as per Gun Free Schools Act.
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The Une;ltem yeto was part of the. mlttee Is to resolve diff~n~ over
. ~ on indiVidual government -Rouse GOP's Q»ntract with ~erica how the president~ ~·the veto.
. progr&II]S has long been a dreltm of . JastlaiL The Rouse and-SeDate ap'lbe Hm•se plan wmJ!d ;ve ~
many RepubUc;ans - and some proved cWrerent versions by big ma- presJdent Mwer Dyer a bamd W
: Democl:&ts; too.~ · · · .. _·. . · -jorities. atnton said he'd sign it · . gt 5PCDdipg 1term, eyep tax lsmp: . But with Deriiocr8t BJIUllntoJaln · . BJ(t thnie ygtes were· seyen .JIIllcl, The. more convoluted Senate
.· .the White RouSe, and·Congress' own
uo~. c;M>P leaders didn't get plan would break spending bills into
. spending priorities In dlsp~te, last .around tO n8mlng· a ROUS&Senate hQ.Ddreds of small par1s.
= 5prlng's IU$h·..toward· the ·Uiie-ltem
panel to. work out cWrerences until. But a 'tlnal version wlU take time.
veto haS_slowed to a crawL. .
• earner _this month. The committee When. the co~erence committee ad.. Democrats say Congress Is sta1llng didn't ~until Wednesday.
· . . jOumed . Wednesday, the panel In·~because RepubUaiDS .don't wimt to
Atlssue:thetiinlngontransferrlng structed its slaff.to work on il and to
· hand: .Clinton the line-item veto in · Congi'ess' power of the purse. : ·
report back at the end of Octo~r.
··.time tO use It against ~pcomJng GOP . F1scal coriservatlves · have · loilg . No one's betting a compromise.
· . spending and tax<Ut bOis. . . · . ~ted to give the president the pow- wlU be ready then, either.
~ . '7he ·.RepubUCBDS' clouble •_slaD- ~ to del~ specllc items from
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set of principles to guide federal decision making with respect to investments in
science and technology. The principles reflect PCAST' s belief in the importance of
reserving stable federal funding for both basic and applied research and strong
upport for universities, research institutions and national labs. Young notes that the
dministration's FY 97 budget request will represent a crucial statement about our
vestment strategy under the deficit reduction plan.
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Rahm response on federal funding for Gary, Ind. Police Dept. Notes that Gary
received three federal grants to fund 35 officers, while Indiana State Police received
~IV()~~ over $2 million in COPS AHEAD grants to fund 29 State Troopers. Gary Police
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Deutch note on CIA documents released by JFK Assassination Board. In response
to your question. Stresses CIA cooperation with Board and notes CIA has not
appealed Board's determinations. Says CIA has released over 200,000 pages of
material to the National Archives and that the Board is reviewing the redacted
portions of those documents to see if any additional material should be released.
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AFL-CIO Medicare spots. Harold forwards press release and script for these ads,
which ran September 16-24 on CNN and five local Washington stations-- a $250,000
media buy. Part of AFL-CIO's $2.5 million Stand UP for America's Working
Families campaign.
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Immigration Clip: "U.S. tries to put residents in jobs held by illegal aliens."
'-...~4;: Forwarded by Leon from 9/26.New York 7imes. INS has made more than 4,000
£.~ arrests in six southeastern states as it conducts its first major sweep of illegal workers
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in non-border states. Twenty employers were arrested and 10 others fined up to
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$10,000 each. Although a good effort, operation only "skimmed surface" as regional
' )L'A~ ~-(u"" INS director estimates there are 100,000 illegals in the region. INS helped 2,400
~ ~~legal residents replace the vacated jobs.
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Bills would make it much easier for companies to get their hands on surpluses in
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on entertainment, she said their wor.k.er ust who'ttave been laid off 'from large technology
gresslonal·prop!)sal.for strict new lim· camblne technical expertise with an In mate companies Including J.B.M. in Westchester
County, G~jnman on"Lo~g Island and Electric
migration, which critics ~ay would knowledge of American papular cUI re _
ne the ability of high t~chnology com·. from Wheel of Fortune to profession wres• Boat In CoMectlcut.
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o r'~crult foreign workers,_ may no~.· Ulng _ that- few Immigrants can offe
vere·barrlers to a growing new ~nter·
Bui her view was not shared unlfo ly.
jobs where foreign recruitment would only a~d
t' ln(Justry 1~ New York City, econo~·That sounds ethnoceittric to me," ld Dan· to a surplus of workers In the region." sa1d
d business executives said yesterday. lei Stechow 32 the founder and p !dent of · Emmanuel Tobler, a professor of econolr!ics
new·· me!lla!' Industry has In recent. Brainstorm' Interactive, a Manhat
compa- . and urban.plan~lug.at New York University
wn out of th!l dense concentration of by th(lt makes Interactive vtd products. and an expert on Immigration.
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.But -'some new media companies were crltl·
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··n lofts_and Inexpensive offices. Hun· other cultures?" ·
Although Mr. Stechow's produ
"In my case, .these rules would mean one
start-up-companies have sprung up to .
. markets· for software, Interactive a videO of the . Gratefill Dead, a
ow market· less entrepreneur," said Yee Ping Wu, 40, a
gr~ms and .other hl&h. ·technology ed only to Unlte4 States companl s, he said two classical .pianist· and · computer expert who ·
In publishing, television and advertls- :of· his technical executives are migrants, .a formed Music Pen; a hew media company In
computer artist from Japan · d a program· the Chelsea''nelghborhood of Manhattan, in
'larger, more matu~e .computer" com- mer from ·India. He said he h d to sponsor. 1988. ·The· company inakes CD-R OM's and
xecutiyes say these new media com-' both for American clttzenshl · enabling them · ··multimedia programs. It employs 6!>0 people.
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Ms. Wu lnimlgra~ed to New York In the.
·ven't recruited many high technology to beeome permanent emplo es.
But that might rut\ head! g Into lmmlgra- 1970's and stayed on, she said, a,s an Illegal
nals from abroad. ·
companies are so, culturally based, l . tion bills In Congress. Amo g q~er changes, allen until she obtained citizenship under the
k new Immigration rules will make a they would cut the annual umber of lmml· amnesty program of the late 1980's.
e," S(lld Gall Kleinberg-Koch, presi- grants to 535,000 from 800, 0 a year, and .the·. . ·"What makes New York Interesting is its
A/S Comsearch, a Manhattan compa- aMual number who. coul obtain citizenship cultural diversity," she ·said. If the rules no"':.
000 from 140,000~ proposed In Congress had been enacted a dec·
crults workers for new media compa- for profe&slonal reasons
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4,000 . arrests . In the past three. .
had the largest number of Illegal
·.·months In assembly plants, food pro- ·
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ces111ng operations, restaurants and
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• or depo~ed: 1,351. David Poythress;,·
· construction sites In six Southeast· • They sald.su~ ratdi :Were discredit· the statt~s Labor.· Commissioner,
. · . · em states, officials said today.
ed tactics In· Immigration enforce- suuestea -that G!!Orgla !)ad a high.·
ment because they created more· number of Illegal workers because
· \ -' · Still, this first "Interior enfo~
.:·ment" effort -·as Qpposed to·thole
fear In the community than deter- :Immigrants come to the state to
1. qn the· nation's borders only .. renee amorig employers. The Clinton · plant or pick crops .and then remain.
·-skimmed ~e surface·of the gtoblem · · .Admln,lstratiori, ·sa•d Fral)k Sharry, With the bustling ·economy of the
' · .of Illegal immigrant workers In the executive director. of th~ lmmlg_ra~ state, and as It prepares-for the 1996.
· region,. said Thomas P. Fischer, dis·
tion· Forum,. ha~ ·.received ·high . ·Summer Olympics, many Illegal
trlct director of the Immigration and
marks for stepping up border en- workers have been attracted· to the
·-Naturalization Service here.·He est!• forcemenund the monitoring of em- state to fill jobs that American cit!·
mated that. the perman!!llt. popula- 'ployers, which his group apd others zens and other legal ·residents will
· tlon of .Illegal workers In the region
contend are more effective tactics. . : not fill, he said.
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·; approli~ed 100,000; they are drawn ,
•iAfter. exCellent pt:agress and
.The Immigration service began Its
· ·. · to the area by the··same. vibrant·. progress greater than the two prevl- first sweeps of In Jul)e, hitting bust, econo~t~y; jobs and relatively low ltv- .ous administrations ln.lmmlgration · . nesses In Alabama, Arkansas,. Flor: , · ·lng casts that auract. millions .of ~e- . enforcement, the Clinton.. Admln!s- ·· Ida,. _Georgia, Mississippi and Ten·
. · .. gal. workers. every year.
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tratlon seems to be resorting tp· · nessee.. ·
· ' · "The Illegal-worker problem Is no
methOds· that haye long. bee~ dis··
In a Chinese restaurant tri Jack· ·
credited," Mr; Sharry: said~ "Do they ·son, Miss., offl.clals found a 13-year·.longer a border~state pr!lblem only,"
·. Mr. Fischer said. "The border states .have a better way of doing this, or .old Mexican boy working 12 hours a,
are . becoming pass-through areas
are they just trying to get headlines . day, seven days a week for $21 a day..
for _Immigrants being drawn to jobs as we head Into an election year?"
,In A~lanta, they found Illegal lmmi- ·
,.. In other areas."
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, Jilut the J.N.S. Commissioner, Dor~ grants. working 'for $15 ·an hour as
Is· M. Meissner, defended the effort.· carpenters at construction sites..
. · In the operation, · 20 employers
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The rafds were not the kind of lnfa· . "Now there Is an African-Ameri·
·. :. willful pattern" of Immigration law
motis sweep~ In which Immigration can, ·I:YhO didn't have 11- job,' working
, ,. vlolaU,ons In their hiring; lmmtgra· . . officials desc:;end upon· i!'lll'nigrant on that construction site,· making
.• .. t~!)nofficials said, and 10 others wer~ . neighborhoods andlmmlgr.ant social more tiian $30,000 a. year,"·· Mr.•.
· fmed up to $15,000 each.I.N.S. off1·
events·to pick up people.randomly,' Fischer said.
clals_ ~id not p~ovi!ie the names of. creating fear, she said. The raids
Mr.· Fischer estlmat.ed the aver. spec1f1c businesses today.
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. were based on solid ·Investigative . age wage paid to the illegal workers·
· A!ter. !llegal workers ~ere foun~,
leads and ~lmed at bUsinesses that at .S7 J!n hour. When agenc~· ·of!!c!als
the. off1c!al:: helped ~e~aa resldenLS
appel!red to be "':lllfully violating the.'. tactored In the Illegal- workers who
, get t~ose.jobs, the off1c1als said. As a
law, she ad~ed.
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they believe slipped through their
res1Jlt, some 2,400 legal workers
-"This operation ')Vas very careful- net, they projected that they .had
......were hired, Mr. Fischer ~ald.
ly put together," Ms.- Meis11ner said, "redirected to America's workers"
.. · News .of· the operation caught
"and we belleye .that such Interior about $55 million In ·gross salaries.
man~ adv~cates for lmmlgrants,and
enforcement ·relieves. pressure on The entire cost of the operation was
1mm1grat1on reform by surprise.
the ~rder. We are saying, 'If we find $750,000, Mr. Fischer said; ·
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sion funds: "Immoral."
Kelso speaks from experl·
ence. In 1985, three years af·
ter he retired as a research chemical engineer at FMC, the
firm took a $720 million surplus trom lm pension. That ended any hope Kelso had or ever getting a cost-of-liVing in·
crease. Since retiring. in1latlon has cut the value ot his pen·
slon 40%. .
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"Once they put the money In the pension plan and take a
tax deduction Cor it, it's no longer their money. It's for the
retirees. It's In trust," Kelso argues.
In 1990, Congress essentially stopped companies from
tenninating pension plans to get at surplus money. It im·
posed a 50% excise tax on money taken from a plan- 20%
it the company starts a new retirement plan - on top of
income taxes. This month, the House is expected to pass a
measure that would eliminate that excise tax .for six
months, then cut it to 6.5% until 2000. 'the outlook In the
Senate Is uncertain.
At stake: surpluses or SlOO billion in 22,400 pension plans
covering 11 million worke~ and 2 million retirees. House
taX writers predict companies would take $40 bllllon twice what they took during the 1980s.
The measure's opponents - led by the Clinton administration, .AFLCIO and American Association of Retired Per·
sons - say the surplus money should be used tor eost-of·
living raises for retirees or to increase worke~· fuNre
benefits. Without the surpluses, opponents also fear that
companies might reduce rurure benefits rather than make
the huge contributions needed to keep pace with aging baby
boomers In their workforce.
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Companies, retirees
square off over pensions
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of worst" underfunded pensions, ac·
cording to the PBGC.
Companies ~re legally bound to . Companies say that is unfair.
pay retirees and..workers the bene- Those firms all have many pension
fits they have earned to date. If they plans. The ones from which they
can't. the federal Pension Benellt took money are not the ones that beGuaranty Corp. takes over and came underfunded. But PBGC direc·
makes pension payments. But its in· tor Martln Slate argues the.~mpa·
surance only covers benefits up to nies could have used the surplus
$30,886 a year. That means about from one plan to beef up another.
20% or pensioners get significantly They didn't, and that raises questions
les than If their plans had survived. about their commitment to their penWhose money is lt? That question sions, he says.
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is at the heart of the debate.
Pensions become overrunded
Companies say any money beyond when Investments perform better
what is needed to pay benelirs al· than expected, companies make big
ready earned by workers and retlr· contributions to avoid taxes or the
ees belon~ to them. They voluntari- workforce shrinks through layo!rs or
ly set up pension plans, take an the early retirements.
investment risk and must make up
Under the House proposal, surany shortfalls. So, they say, they pluses would be available only to
should get (,he windfalls.
companies that have so much money
Companies want workers and relir· In their pension plans that they are
ees to trust them. They say they could prohibited from making any more
use surpluses to become more com· tax-deductible contributions.
petltlve and malu~ jobs more secure.
But benefits consultants, who set
. But tor more than 20 years, Con- up and run pension plans for compa·
gress hasn't trusted companies. The nies, admit they're not entirely com·
House proposal "is really an about· rortabte with the minimum surplus
lace," says Howard Golden. of bene- required by the House bill - 125%
~ts consultant Kwasha Lipton. "Con·
or 150% of the amount needed to pay
gress has suddenly said it's the promised benefits, depending on the
employer's money."
age of a company's workforce and
"I've watched almost aghast over the number ot retirees.
the last 10 to 12 years as the Congress
has put obstacles in front of pension
plans," says Rep. Bill Archer, the
Texas Republican who chairs the
Ways and Means Comminee. He
These pension plans had the biggest sur·
says the pension-surplus proposal,
pluses during the last reporting period.
approved by the comminee last
Companies may have more than one plan:
month, would strengthen pensions
Funding Surplus
because companies will be more
Company
ratio (billions)
likely to put money into their plans lf
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they know they c:an get It out
BeiiSouth
164%
$2.5 ·
But the Clinton administration
P.oJdeiltiallos.:<··:::ti'>~: ·.:·~l183%:EJ:~~4~:i~
says the House proposal would ex·
Ameritech
159%
$2.1
pose the pension insurance fund to
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huge losses that could end in a taXpayer bailout.
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"I know, we all know, that most
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businesses will honor their commit·
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plans," says Corrunerce Secretary
Kraft General Foods
174% · $1.2
Ron Brown. But small drops In the
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Rorida Power & Ught 214%
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216%
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·::. retJr~: st~ppe(l·::a '. handful ::or . complete form and all schedules.
. .::cqmpani!'S.:tro~ dlpplJtg lJltO . · Schedule B is the key. It lists .
. :their perision funds~·:· .. ·· · ·. ·. 'assets and liabilities. If 8$els are.·.:
. :·::. Un~er. the .cur~~t
p;ro- . greater than liablllties, the plan is .
.:.: posal. :~companies ··wouldn~t .have : ·overtunded. For a company to be ·.
·. to tell workenJ· and· ~tirees. Uiat.: ·,.:.able ·ro spend the surpl~ .under :· ·
·'they plaQ to take surplus money. · the House proposal, assets must . :·
··:.But:w~rk~~.an~:eqtltled.to.kno~ ·.. be.,t least-25% rnore:lhan 1~1lb1J....·. ·
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Sometimes, companies set up new
might be plenty for old industries steel, rubber; autos- with lots or re- pension plans. But 60% or the time
tirees. But a fast-growing high-tech they didn't, says Karen Ferguson. au·
company with young workers and thor with Kate Blackwell or Pensions
few retirees should have much in Crisis. Instead, many firms estabmore. "Most of the people In my lished 40l(k) savings plans and told.
business would think 125% Is a litUe ·employees to save Cor themselves.
thin," says Richard Joss, of benefits
The House bill would not require
consultant Watson Wyatt
companies to terminate their pen·
In the 1980s, corporate raiders tar- sion plans to get at a surplus.. In that
geted companies .wtth fat pension respect, it oaers workers and retir·
plans. After buying the companies, ees more protection than the prac·
they terminated the pension plans, tic:e In the 1980s.
bought Insurance annuities to cover
Still, Ferguson believes the House
promised benefits and proposal Is worse because it would
kept the surpluses.
give companies explicit permission
Pension assets were to tap pension money. She rears com·
used in two-thirds or the panies would be unable to resist presbiggest buyouts, accord- sure from stockholders to take the
ing to the Investor Re- surpluses.
sponsibility Research
In the 1980s. companies had to go
Center. Treasury Secre- through a loophole In pension law to
tary Robert Rubin, co- ·get the money. "At least when there
chairman ot Goldman was a moral cloud over it. some com·
Sachs before coming to panies wouldn't do it," says Fergu.
Washington, predicts the son, who also is head or the Pension
House proposal would Rights Center.
once again make penBeyond the philosophical issues.
sions a factor In buyouts. the proposal is motivated by money.
Companies would have to pay i~
. Some companies including FMC, Union come tax on what they take. House
carbide, Phillips Petr~ tax writers expect almost $10 billion
leum and Goodyear Tire to roll into the Treasury to help cui
& Rubber - terminated
the federal budget dellcit While thai
their own pension plans is good for the overall economy, it's
and took the surpluses to small comfort to retirees like Kelso.
keep raiders away.
He fought FMC a decade ago, writing
In all, about $20 billion letters to the Internal Revenue Ser·
was taken from 2,000 vice and testifying before Congress.
pension plans covering
"When you're 65 years old and you
2.5 million people. Ex· retire. you've got lots of energy to
xon took the most- Sl.6 light it." says Kelso. 74. "Ten year.
billion in 1986. Spokes- later you've got less, and 20 years Jar
man Ed Burwell says er you may not have any. They count
only that the money was on that."
used for "general eorpo- Contributing: Tammi Warh
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Your. retirement under siege
The House this month will consider a proposal to lei companies spend surplus pension money any
way they wish..The bill wo.uld:
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.,. Apply to companies
.,.. Let companies use
then dramatically reduce
whose pension plans
the monervwithout
the excise tax an money
that companies take out
of pension plans.
have at least 25% more
assets than needed to
pay current benefits to
workers and retirees.
Pension fund war chests
About 40% of pension plans could have surplus money taken
out under the House proposal. Money available
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for current benefits:
Less than 80%
80% to 99%
100%to 124%
125% or more
1 -Include~ international plans
telling workers
retirees.
�THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
January 22, 1996
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MEMORANDUM FOR DON BAER
GEORGESTEPHANOPOULOS
KITTY IDGGINS
GENE SPERLING
CC:
Harold Ickes
FROM:
Jennifer O'Connor
SUBJECT:
Minimum Wage radio address
orv-/
February 3, 1996 is the first anniversary of the President's proposal to increase the minimum
wage. Secretary Reich strongly urges that we devote the Saturday radio address that week to
the Republicans' failure to give low-wage Americans a raise. Attached are a fact sheet and
talking points from the Department that could be used for a draft of the radio address. What
do you think of the idea?
PS -- some of you will likely hear from the Secretary or his staff on this issue.
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ANOTHER YEAR OWER AND DEEPER IN DEBT:
CONGRESS' REFUSAL TO INCREASE THE
MINIMUM WAGE HURTS WORKING FAMIUES
• On February 3, 1995, President Clinton proposed increasing the minimum
wage by 90 cents in two increments to assure our society's lowest paid workers
a living wage. The President's proposal would benefit an estimated 11 million
workers.
• Saturday, February 3, 1995 will mark the first anniversary of the President's
proposal and a full year in which the congressional leadership has adamantly
refused to give America's low-wage working families a raise.
• Congress' failure to raise the minimum wage by 45 cents in July 1995, the
first of two equal raises proposed by President Clinton, has already deprived
minimum wage workers of $525. If Congress had passed the President's
proposal, minimum wage families could have :
.J bought food for their home for 3 months; or
.J paid for 10 month~ •>f health insurance; or
.J paid 10 months of electricity bills; or
.J bought a 21-month supply of prescription drugs for
ailing parents or sick children.
• If Congress continues its stubborn refusal to pass the President's minimum
wage increase (the full 90 cents), minimum wage families will lose an
additional $1 ,425 between now and next February. This additional money
would allow a minimum wage family to:
.J buy food for their home for nine months; or
.J pay for complete health care for a year; or
.J pay utility bills for almost a year; or
.J pay one year's tuition at many community colleges.
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• The public overwhelmingly supports the President's call for a living wage for
minimum wage workers. A national poll conducted in January 1995 for the
Los Angeles Times found that 72% of Americans supported an increase in the
wage, confirming a December 1994 Wall Street JoumaVNBC News survey that
found raising the minimum wage is favored by 75%.
• Because Congress has refused to adopt the President's proposal, the
minimum wage is rapidly approaching its lowest real value in 40 years. The
first half of the President's 90 cen~ proposal would simply restore the
minimum wage to its value in 1989, when Congress voted in an overwhelming
and bi-partisan manner (382-37 in the House, 89-8 in the Senate) to increase
the minimum wage, also by 90 cents.
• During the 1989 debate over the minimum wage, Majority Leader Bob Dole
harshly criticized those who would call for a cut in the capital gains tax but
oppose an increase in the minimum wage: "I think that many of us feel that
this is not an issue where we ought to be standing and holding up anybody's
getting a 30-to-40 cents an hour pay increase, at the same time that we're
talking about capital gains. I, never thought the Republican Party should
stand for squeezing every last nickel from the minimum wage."
• Increasing the minimum wage helps working families. Nearly two thirds of
minimum-wage workers are adult~ (64%). The average minimum wage worker
brings home half of his or her fa;;nily's wet.kly earnings.
• The President's proposed increase in the minimum wage would increase
wages without costing jobs. Over a dozen empirical studies have found that
moderate increases in the minimum wage do not have significant effects on
employment. Nobel laureate Robert Solow has stated "... the fact that the
evidence [of job loss] is weak suggests that the impact on jobs is small."
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�OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 46204-2797
EVAN BAYH
GOVERNOR
January 3, 1996
Mr. Don Baer
Director
White House Communications
The White House
1400 Pennsylvania
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Don:
I saw your name among the list of attendees for the recent
Renaissance gathering but was disappointed that we did not have
a chance to get together and get caught up. It is probably my
fault. As you may have heard, Susan and I had twin sons on
November 8 and they have taken up a vast majority of our time
since then. They are both a great blessing, and as you can
imagine, a great deal of work. Please be sure and let me know,
Don, if I can ever be of any assistance to you in your work for
the President. Things are certainly looking better, but we have
a long way to go before ·this election is won. I would like to do
my part.
Again, I hope that all is well with you and yours and look
forward to seeing you on a future trip to Washington.
Best wishes,
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'\3~ t-0 J.v-V"THE CIVIC PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT
[Community Covenant for Shared Social Responsibility]
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Benjamin Barber
I. AIMS AND GOALS:
If the end of the era of big government is also to be the beginning of a new era of
shared social responsibility and civic partnerships, President Clinton has an opportunity to play a politically
and philosophically significant role of leadership that can contribute to ahighly visionary campaign and a
second terin legislative agenda. His aim would be events, policies apd possibly a inodest.legislative agenda
aimed at helping to establish and nurture a robust civil society as a partner of a downsized government. He
would encourage shared social responsibility by focusing on the civic sector as a-domain distinctive from
both the government and the commercial sector, and by cultivating partnerships tharrender all three sectors
more responsive and democratic. In doing so, he would also be helping to redefine the Presidency in an era
after big government, taking on new leadership responsibilities geared to the office as an engine of active
citizenship. Through the civic partnership approach, he could also help relink politics and citizenship to the
everyday places where people live, work, learn, pray, parent, grow and play, and thereby help overcome
the incivility, anti-political animus and civic cynicism that are the hallmarks of this era.
In Portland this week the President said "if we had the type of cohesion elsewhere (that Portland
showed in responding to the flood) ... we'd be in remarkable shape." This program is aimed at showing that.
in many small ways, we DO have this kind of cohesion and sense of social responsibility; and that the
President can play a critical role in fostering, displaying and expanding it where it already exists and
creating it where it does not.
II. MEANS:
The civic partnership approach would call for a strategy in which the President himself engages in
outreach events designed both to express his commitment to partnerships and the model potential
partnerships by:
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helping carefully selected communities, groups and assemblies of citizens to identify their chier
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challenges and problems;
• encouraging them to seek approaches to those challenges that allow them to take significant
responsibility for solutions;
• exhorting them to extend and enlarge the compass of their interests and take greater
responsibility for forging partnerships with other civil society groups as well as with the private sector
(business) and government;
• inviting them to explore how and where government (and the President) might play a partner
role or, when necessary, deal with issue~ beyond the scope of their competence and/or power.
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ill. REQUIREMENTS AND THEIR RISKS:
Talk or Action?
I. Because so much of the civil society discourse is talk -- talk ABOUT civil society -- rather than
a manifestation OF civil society, a program involving the President needs to focus on ACTION. No just
people talking about problems and the need for cooperation and partnership, but people who are
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cooperating and acting. However, such events are harder to script and control, and provide more careful
planning and advance cooperation with community groups than a simple on-shot town meeting.
Single Event or Multiple Events?
2. Because the project can easily be seen cynically as one more campaign gimmick. or a windy
idea with no substantive content, a single-event approach is risky; it puts 'alot of eggs in one basket and
tries to qeate a new discourse in one fell swoop. A multiple event approach constitutes a real program over
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time and allows· the President to kind of surround the idea of civil society and make it clear that it is not just
THIS or THAT one kind of community meeting or group. But multiple events require more planning, and
a systematic approach that rule out doing a one day media event.
Listening or Control?
3. Because the aim is interactive, the President needs to be in a listening mode and agendas need
to be somewhat flexible. But his risks a loss of control of an event, and may leave the President facing ,
unpredictable outcomes. On the other hand, this is his forte and his forte lends itself to the democratic spirit
that such events should conjure.
Interactivity or Familiarity?
4. By the same token, because the aim of the program is to gorge genuine partnerships and present
the President interactively, there is also a danger of injury to the dignity ofthe Presidential office. Some
argue that a certain distance and aloofness, ·an economical and sparing exposure are essential to this
dignity. This approach thus needs to draw a sharp line between interactivity and familiarity, between the
President as a dignified facilitator and the President as just one more guy in the room talking problems.
Risky.
Presidential Modesty or Presidential Impotence?
5. Because the project is predicated on"the end of big government" and the modest notion of a
civic partnership between government and civil society, there is a risk of downgrading the POWER of the
President and the Presidency -- "we're just one more player in the game." The challenge is how to replace
the imperial Presidency with the Citizen Presidency without creating the impression of the Impotent
Presidency. The risk is making the end of Big Government look like the end of a big and powerful
President.
Abstract Places or Real Places?
6. Because the needs of scheduling, security and co~trol are likely to dictate a large, neutral
setting -- an auditorium, an anonymous community hall, a gym -- there is arisk that the event will seem
contrived and media-driven, lacking the very community specificity and civic identity the event is meant to
telegraph. On the other hand more immediate and intimate settings are harder to deal with in media terms
and may be too stamped by their parochial character.
Now I would argue that in every choice the better choice is the bolder and perhaps riskier choice:
to organize events predicated on
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• action not just talk
* multiple events, not a one-time happening
* a listening mode rather than a control mode
* interactivity -- hoping to avoid familiarity
* modesty -- hoping to avoid a sense of powerlessness
* specific community spaces
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These preferences not only are in accord with our aims -- civic partnerships and community covenant -- but
are also suited to the strengths of this President: his style, his quickness, his approachability, his capacity
to listen to ordinary Americans, his understanding of the President as America's First Citizen rather than its
imperial archon.
IV. A PROGRAM OF EVENTS:
If a multiple event approach is accepted, there is a mix of events that might be appropriate; the
three TYPES include fairly large town meeting style gatherings; national civil society organization
meetings; and specific local community group meetings.
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TYPE I. TOWN MEETINGS: here the President would locate a specific geographical community and
invite a cross section of citizens who are not at present necessarily working together and' invite them into a
conversation in which they would be encouraged both to identify critical issues of concern and then
explore ways in which they might work to solve them. Some solutions might depend only on their on
collaboration and common effort, others would call for partnerships with other sectors -- business or
governmental (local or national). This is the easiest meeting to organize and the President has. already
demonstrated his, skill in such settings. But it has the shortcomings of being about talk not community
work, involving folks in ~hat could simply become a gripe session or a "get government" shoot out.
Perhaps such a meeting could be held as the culmination of other more specific, community based events at
the end of a series of events rather than as a kick-off;
TYPE 2. NATIONAL CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETINGS: here the aim would be to identify a national
civic organization and pre-plan with it an agenda and action menu; The event would to some degree ·
reenact and ratify some provisional prior agreements, and result in an action outcome that broadened the
commitment of the organization and perhaps certified a new partnership with other groups or with the
government.
Here are some specific examples:
• The President joins a national meeting ofthe Chamber of Commerce (it might be a preschedule
meeting or called specifically for the purpose) and challenges its members to seek partnerships that permit
businesses and civil society entities such as schools or philanthropies to work together on specific projects
--say in literacy (reading programs) or school-to-job programs. He calls on them to commit to a new
community covenant in which they accept a bill of corporate responsibilities. The Chamber responds that
it would like to pursue the education initiative, but needs an assist from the Department of Education. The
President says he will take it up with the Secretary (or perhaps the Secretary is there since this issues will
have been put on the agenda in advance). On the way to calling business back to its social responsibilities,
the President demonstrates the Department of Education is not a meddling bogeyman but a facilitator of·
local education-business partnerships.
• The President joins a meeting of the Council on Foundations and raises with it the fundamental
question: "Just how much of the burden of our nation's social problems can you take on? Where can you do
more? Are there partnerships you can forge with other community groups to extend your impact?"
Foundations agree to broaden their mandate and sign onto to a new community covenant, but also make
clear (with an aside to the Republican Freshmen class) that philanthropy cannot become a surrogate for
government, and that there are still crucial activities government must undertake if foundation work is to be
successful. On the way to lighting a fire un~er foundations, the President also gives Americans a lesson in
the limits of philanthropy.
• The President meets. with the American Association of Universities (AAU), an elite group of 53
of the nation's leading research universities, and asks why so many of America's leading higher education
institutions -- the pride of America -- sit on billion dollar endowments and undertake elite education in the
middle of some of the country's most troubled inner city school systems (Stanford next to East Palo Alto,
crime capital of California, Yale in New Haven with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the
country, the University of Chicago on the' gang-ridden south side, Rutgers with branches in Camden and
Newark, New Jersey's most trouble cities). Why can't they model for the higher education community a
new form of partnership in which they recognize they are members of the larger community and put some
of their educational resources and facilities at the disposal of hard-pressed inner city schools. What can
Harvard's Kennedy School, do for the Roxbury School District's social science department? What can the
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers do for defunded arts education programs in New Jersey? And
the AAU may respond: alright, we will take the challenge, but why is the government reducing Pell grants
· and threatening Americorps funding which is vital to letting students continue their education THROUGH
doing community !!ervice. On the way to turning colleges and universities towards their communities, the
President gives a lesson about the relevance of some threatened federal programs to education.
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* The President takes his concern with violence and incivility to the National Assoc.iation of
Broadcasters or a meeting of Hollywood studios and telecommunication conglomerates (the kind of
meeting he called for in the State of the Union) and asks what they can do on a voluntary basis to offer
Americans both diversitY and a healthy menu of entertainment; he also asks why they do not act to prevent
the commercialization of the classroom by groups like K-Ill's Channel One (which brings soft news and
hard advertising into 12,000 American classrooms every day). They say they worry about government
censorship: the President explores voluntary programs like the V-chip and labelling. The country sees not
· only a President deeply concerned with how not only government but the commercial sector can corrupt
. family values, but also gets a iesson in voluntary compliance from embarrasses and anxious-todemonstrate-their-values studio executives.
*The President participates in a joint meeting of the AARP (retired persons) and the American
student association and brokers a conversation about generational justice. What can kids do to help elderly
shut~ ins; what can the elderly do to help a generation on whose backs a vast entitlement program now
rests? Can the AARP extend the compass of its work to develop a voluntary means testing program for
entitlements? Or a fund into which the well. off can turn in a percentage of their social security specifically
targeted at' problems of youth? On the way to bringing together the old and young in a common discussion
about justice, the President can highlight for the nation the disastrous economics that entitlements mandate
down the line and get us all thinking about taking a share of the responsibility.
and finally, an example that can actually be put into practice since it
rests on an invitation already extended to the President:
* The President accepts the January 29, 1996 invitation from the Council of Jewish Federations to
meeting with the Council in Washington on March 7 ON THE CONDITION that the Council express a.·
willingness before the event to be responsive to a call by the President for the Council to turn outwards and
forge partnership with other religion philanthropies to take on social challenges larger than the ones it can
face alone. The President turns say to Arthur Schechter from Texas or Monte Friedkin from Florida and
· asks: "Can the Federation extend the compass of its work and forge partnership with catholic charities and
Lutheran philanthropies and together take on some of our urban problems?" On the way to helping the
Federation make a historic move out of its inward facing philanthropic stance and into a partnership with
other religious charities, the President also displays a concern for the Jewish community and (not so
incidentally) helps secure his electoral and campaign resources in the Jewish community.
• THIS CAN HAPPEN ON MARCH 7 IF WE MOVE QUICKLY. I would recommend it, but only if
we have a guarantee that there will be a positive response (the Federation is divided and needs
leadership from President Clinton here).
TYPE 3. SPECIFIC COMMUNITY EVENTS: I would like to see the national events. suggested above
mixed in with a diet of local community events that would be very local, very specific and very'symbolic.
These meetings would bring the President to a community group such as a Little League or a big
brother/big sister program or a block association party and allow him both to help display to the nation a
side of American life ignored in the bad-news media and neglected by those who think the American
infrastructure is in decline but also to challenge them to expand the compass of their concerns. Can a little
league soccer association do something for the local public school soccer program that has been defunded?
Can a commercial zone store association provide a "safe haven" program for kids walking home? What is a
block association that has driven drug dealers off ITS block going to do about the fact that the same dealers
have set up shop two blocks away in a neighborhood where there is no block association? There are
endless.possibilities here, but here are a few examples of what I think might be particularly inspiring
examples:
* the President arranges a visit to one of the remaining BOWLING LEAGUE teams that has not
succumbed to Bowling Alone (Bob Putnam) and talks with them about the differences betwee'n bowling in
leagues and bowling alone, and how come they still stay in the League. Are they working to get younger
folks who bowl alone back into the League? Are there activities they can engage in that will broaden their
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community to address some of the problems in the larger community? Bowling for latchkey kids with
nowhere to go after school? .Free instruction or free bowling for the ten kids in the local school who show
the most improvement in their grades? Free equipment for drops out who go back to school? How about a
partnership with an bowling ball or equipment manufactUrer to do such things? On the way to highlighting
Bob Putnam's dist~rbing message about the decline of community activity and membership (in Putnam's
now notorious "BOWLING ALONE" article, the President helps the League to help itself enlarge its
membership and expand its social responsibility.
* The President visits an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) firm where employees are
really engaged in some governance (the ICA Group in Boston specializes in worker-owned businesses and
could helplocate a good candidate); he talks about a democratic workplace, and how ESOPS combine
capitalism and worker involvement in ways that increase productivity but preserve a close linkage between
the community and the firm. Workers talk about the difference between having a share of ownership and
about how ownership means responsibility. And perhaps the President challenges them to show how their
increased responsibility over their work lives translates into other arenas? What is their company doing for
the community? What should it be doing? On the way to helping a company expand its sense of social
responsibility, the President highlights that capitalism and democracy in the workplace can go together;
and that just as democracy means the right to own, the right to own carries responsibilities with it.
* The President visits Mashpee Commons Mall in Mashpee, Mass (Cape Cod) where an
enlightened developer named Doug Storrs has built into a mall a library, a church and a senior citizens'
home. Or visits Wheaton Square Mall in Wheaton, Illinois where there is an outdoor mall that .focuses on a
pub,ic square smack in the middle of the mall. He talks with folks there about the vanishing of public space
and town life, and how too often today our public spaces are only commercial spaces. He calls on other
business people and chain stores vendors to imitate these experiments and think about their responsibility
to providing surburban America with town squares where they can be neighbors and citizens as well as
shoppers and cqnsumers. Local politicians might reflect on how hard it is to resist developers and why
zoning laws (or state court decisions) interfere with civic uses of malls: On the way to reminding America
of how little is left ofthe civic space we need to cultivate civil society, the President shows off a mall that
is trying to do something bold about the problem and gives us a lesson in overcoming defeatism.
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Of these three kinds of events, I prefer the second and third to the first and believe that a
combination of those two would be very effective. I could envision a town meeting~ down the road
IN WHICH PARTICIPANTS IN THE EARLIER MORE SPECIFIC EVENTS GATHERED to talk
through with the Presidents lessons learned, activities undertaken, new commitments made, !l!ld agendas
that were expanded.
A SECOND PHASE of such a program might begin to envision legislative initiatives at the
Federal level that would help civic partnerships and community covenant. The Walt Whitman Center is
exploring several avenues here {Malls, Telecommunication and Campaign Finance Reform, Arts Education
--see enclosure) and Dan Coats and Bill Bennett have offered nineteen legislative proposals using federal
funds as inducements for civil society and family values activity (see enclosure) from a Republican
perspective. The point here would be to follow up on exhortation and encouragement with programs aimed
at sustaining and extending civil society and its activities (the CNCS can be effectively positioned as
exactly such a civic partnership). It might even offer some hope for a bipartisan agenda here Gust in case
the President still faces a hostile Congress next year!)
Although this need not be planned in detail here, it would be prudent to think about it
systematically now so that scheduled events could be selected that reflected areas in which the President
could continue to show an interest and undertake legislative initiatives. For the underlying aim of the
program is to help give to the President's core beliefs a set of principles and issues that are coherent,
visionary and consistent over time and that become the basis not just for a set of events but for Presidential
leadership at home and abroad.
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BRB
�LAHHY
M.
Sfi'AJ<;ES
SENII)~ Vi!;~ PRESIDENT'
CORPORATE AND LCGI!ltAT!VE AF~AIA.~
iiiiii!f!J!!f UNITED ST~TES
~ P()$TilL SERVICE
June 10, 1996
Honorable Michael McCuny
Assistant to the President
and Press secretary
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mike:
At the risk of joining the cro¥.<1, I am \Miting to suggest a subject the President may v.;sh to
mention in his radio address this coming Saturday, June 15. That's the day on YAllch we wll
issue the Breast cancer Awareness stamp-the centerpiece of our nati~de community
outreach program to encourage earty detection and treatment of the disease. The stamp will be
Issued here in Washington at a ceremony as part of the Susan G. Komen Breast canoer
Foundation's National Race for the Cure, of v.tlich the Vice PreSident and Mrs. Gore are
Honorary National cna1rs.
In addition to issuing 156 million stamps, our community outreach program Includes free
brochures and resource materials in 40,000 post office lobbies, public service announcements,
partnerships with community health organizations, and many other activities.
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be happy to provide any additional information you or the speechwriters might need. If
you'd like, we could even draft a sentence or tv.o for inclusion in the address.
If it ever calms dOVvn, let's get together.
In the meantime, many thanks for your consideration.
Best regards.
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