VUL XIII NO 11 f [HHUAHY 3 C), 1991 50 Ce nt s
Y DCC. L WI
. Stalf Writer
More tban 75,000 Blac died
wh t experts c 11 "exce deaths"
in 1987. The term refers to the
number of deaths mong African
American which would not
occur if Bl ck lived under the
ame health conditions as
white.
ate ee
. .lnput on'
wa te policy
By BEAT ER L. H S
CapiltJi News Serv·u
I
LAMS! G -If �ou are
cerned about hazardous
, Se WASTE, Page 7
,
Homicide, uicide, uninten­
tional injuries, nd disea e re
the m in contributers to thi high
death r teo
A nation I teleconference
pon ored by the Dep rtment of
He lth and Hum n Services last
Thur day, ddres ed 'topi of
violence a pubuc 'he lth prob­
lem in minority communitie .
••
Secretary of Healt and
Hum n Services Dr. Loui Sul­
livan s id during the telecon­
ference, "We are here because we
want to eliminate the stark con­
tra t in minority health" a om­
pared to whites.
About 3000 people are said to
have participated in the nation­
wide teleconference entitled
"The Public Health Service Ap­
pro ch to Closing the Minority
Health Gap: A Discu sio on
Yiolence in Minori t Com­
munities. "
IN 1984 SULLrVAN formed
a task force on Black and
Mi nority Healjh, to i denti fy
health problem areas which ac­
counted for more than 80 percent
of exces deaths amon U.S.
minoritie , and generate a set of
..
recommendations. geared 'toward
improvin the health of the
e t
.. tba t . homicide, i the leading
M'�I11";.IW"�.NliiIlliJ'f' csu e of death among Blae
·OJ.Ih� males between the ages of 15-44.
. Black males between the age of
25-34 have a homicide rate seven
imcs that of white males. Blac
ales have a lifetime in 21
chance of dying by homicide,
S •• HEALTH, Page e
·DRAFT QVAYL AND NEIL (Bulh) TOO· read. t .hlrt 01
t I. peace actlvllt. Vice Pre.ldent Dan Quayle �vaded ac.tlve
ervlce In the Vietnam W r and like that coJinlct, the
majority of t .. oop. In the Gulf W rare th poor. Only four
m,mber of Congee h ve on or d ughtera fllhtlnl the
ar, and Afrlc n Amerlc ns comprise 30�. of the U.S. for-
ces In the Gulf. (Ken Snodlras photo)
- ELIMINATE JOB tart.
Reduce staff accordingly.
- Eli min re the GA Medical
S • DSS cut., Pa 7.
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lo,rlg
'bu�g t deflclt wa
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By REA THER L. BARRIS
Capitaj News Service
..__
LANSING -While this budget
crisis seems to have hit Mi.chigan
state government all of a sudden,
it is actually a problem that began
in 1979, according to a state
legislative agency
State expendi�res have ex­
ceeded s ta te revenues most of the
years since 1979, the statistics in­
dicate, even though' the state
budget may have balanced.
"The budget would still have
balanced because of year-end
book closings and transfers,
etc.," said Gary 01 on, director
of the Senate Fiscal Agency, "but
the budget has been slowly slid­
ing into a deficit due to the im­
balance between expenditures
and revenues.
. The Senate Fiscal Agency is
under tbe Republican-coritrolled
Senate. Gov. John Engler, then
Senate majority le der, frequent­
ly drew QJl data from the Senate
Fiscal agency to mount his at­
tacks ,against the Blanchard ad­
ministration. Blanchard and bis
aides often complained during
the campaign, of bias in data
presented by tho agency.
"IN THE MID "80'5 tem­
porary tax increase helped raise
revenue but the spending was
still there," Olson said. "There
was enough unexpected growth
in the economy to offset the prob­
lem at the time."
These one-time efforts such as
temporary tax increases may
have brought the current .year
into balance but .continuous use
of these devices only com­
pounded the structural budget
problem. Expenditures are not as
temporary as revenue, Olson
said. '
Olson published a report Nov.
·12, 1987, while he was the
deputy director of the Senate Fis­
cal Agency. He outlined this im­
balance and forecast the current
deficit problem. The report, en-
•
1m
bull
..
Orrick 'Buckingham
Syatem Conaultant
"No, I think tbat's wishful
thinking, omething the
Republicans don't look at
when they cut the lower
echelon troll) the budget."
titled, "Michigan State Budget:
An Analysis of the Structural Im­
balance Between Revenue and
Expenditures". was based on da ta
from the fiscal years from 1979
through 1987.
"This imbalance between
revenues and expendi tures was
closed by a long list of one-time
adjustments that had the impact
o-f addi ng over $4 bi Ilion to
revenues 9ver the past eight
years," the report sta ed.
"This imbalance between
revenues' and expendi tures has
persisted despite the (act that the
Michigan economy has ex­
perienced relatively strong
S ,BUDGET, Page �
(Rawn". ".',re for •
1989 i. pr !iminary
"nd 1 0 fll\lr .. are
tima,,".)
. J m Walk r
Stud nt
"People are not going to find
anything under a Republican
administration. Engler' doing
what be has to do at the
expense of a lot of people. "