The Reagan administration's budget cuts: Their impact on the poor:

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The decision on the part of the Department of Health and Human Services not to fund a center for poverty research is a small indication of an enormous change in the making: the Reagan administration's shift in national priorities.' Indeed the President's 1982 and 1983 budget reform plans2 and the allocation of funds among programs (current and proposed) have represented a sharp break with the recent past. It is evident that the administration is attempting to reverse the trend of the 1960s and 1970~~ which had been to move away from military expenditures and toward outlays for social programs.

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On days like today I wonder what that other path would have looked like, and I can't help but think this is what such policies get us.