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Jewish Federation Apartments, Inc.

is Proud to Announce

A CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR...

Budget Cuts
Need Improvement

JAMES D. BESSER

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

Two years ago, when members of
the new Republican Congress
came to town with visions of a
balanced budget dancing in their
heads, journalists predicted a
kind of fiscal meltdown for Jew-
ish organizations that provide vi-
tal health and social services.
The reality of the 104th Con-
gress was less sensational; the
nation's social safety net may be
a bit shredded, but it's still in
place, and Jewish service
providers were able to adapt to
the changes in federal policy.
That's the good news; the bad
news is that the past two years
were just the opening rounds in
a brutal, vastly complex effort to
eliminate the federal deficit by
2002.

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Omination Forms are due before January 31, 1997

Current sponsorships include:

There are indications that the
community, seasoned by two
years of budgetary trench war-
fare, is prepared to take a prag-
matic view of a process that
continues to reshape the rela-
tionship between citizens and
their government.
That means Jewish groups
will focus less on resisting the
overall trend toward government
downsizing, and work harder to
find ways to protect vulnerable
populations even as programs
are cut and funding decreased.
Last week, the new Clinton
team huddled in Washington to
lay the groundwork for what it
says will be an all-out effort to
end federal red ink in five years.
In early February, the ad-
ministration will present a bud-
get plan aimed at accelerating
government downsizing and
paving the way for significant
changes in the big entitlement
programs —Medicare, Medicaid
and Social Security. Without at
least cutting the rate of growth
of those programs, a balanced

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Jewish Federation Apartments would like to recognize all the organizations
who have contributed to the success of "Eight Over Eighty."

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