The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, May 12, 1981-Page 5 Conservative Senate favors Reagan tax cut Daily Photo by JACKIE BELL STUDENTS SEARCH A listing of summer job openings outside the Univer- sity's Temporary Student Employment Office yesterday. Unsuccessful student job-hunters have called the city's job market "desperate." Students find city ,job market bleak (Continued fromPage 1) can give them," said Stephanie Hall, dining room manager for Cottage Inn. "I just got laid off from the store where I worked," said Anne Harrington, who graduated this month. She and a friend are looking for housecleaning work, but "it doesn't look so good," she said. VARIOUS AREA businesses such as Great Lakes Federal Savings and the Real Seafood Co., say they get anywhere from five to 15 people coming in every day to ask about jobs. When they place an advertisement for an available position, that figure more than doubles. A manager at the Whif- fletree Restaurant said approximately 100 people in three days answered their ad for kitchen help. A new company in Ann Arbor, J & R Systems Advertising, placed a newspaper ad last week to fill 16 telephone sales positions. Roughly 200 people, primarily students, applied for the temporary, three-month positions, according to manager Ron Bunce. For students, the number of available summer jobs has increased only in the work/study program. However, Longmate said the University's em- ployment office has very little federal money left over from the fall and winter terms for funding summer work/study positions. One hundred and ninety-eight students have been hired so far, and perhaps 50 more will be, according to Longmate, compared to 479 students who were hired through work/study at this time last year. LONGMATE ATTRIBUTED the in- crease to the economic belt-tightening Michigan businesses are facing. Work/study students are a cheaper temporary employment cost for businesses because 80 percent of their pay is currently funded by the federal government. For businesses, Longmate said, "with budget cuts, the first thing to go is regular temporary employment positions. Everybody's hurting." Martinson said some of the places she has applied to are looking for work/study students only. "They say if I was work/study, then I could have a job," she said, "but I can't get work/study." Labor market analyst Michael Williams of the Michigan Employment Security Commission, said Ann Arbor unemployment for March was at 5.5 percent, up 0.8 percent from the same period last year. WILLIAMS AND Longmate had some advice for student job hunters. "Have a good resume and look neat" when applying, said Williams. "Keep looking, don't give up the first week or two. Don't feel as though if there's nothing here, then there's no jobs available," advised Longmate. Job availability for students remains somewhat bleak throughout the school year. Longmate said her office just finished a survey that shows student temporary employment was down 10.6 percent in the 1980-81 year. "It's just real discouraging, especially when you know you have some skills," said Martinson. "I have a bachelor's degree and two years' ex- perience." Use Daily Class ifieds WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Senate, in an unswerving march toward ap- proval of President Reagan's budget, crushed a Democratic-led attempt yesterday to limit a proposed tax cut to less than half of the president's request. The Senate voted 74-14 against an amendment by Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) to limit the tax cut to $21.4 billion, compared to the $54 billion reduction proposed by the ad- ministration. HOLLINGS, RANKING Democrat on the Budget Committee, said a smaller tax cut aimed more specifically than Reagan's toward productivity would keep down the federal deficit while still stimulating economic growth. Reagan's tax plan, commonly known as the Kemp-Roth proposal, for Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Sen. William Roth Jr. (R-Del.), would reduce personal tax rates by 10 percenta year for three con- secutive years. However, Rep. Kent Hance (D- Texas), who has been drafting alter- nate tax bills for the House conser- vatives, said a plan that cuts tax rates 5 percent in the first year and 10 percent in each of the next two years "is the maximum our people will consider." REAGAN's proposal would reduce taxes by $54 billion in 1982, leave a $45 billion budget deficit for 1982, and post- pone a balanced budget until 1984. The Senate is debating a $699 billion budget resolution that includes revenue targets as well as spending ceilings for fiscal 1982. The size of the tax cut would determine to a large extent the amount of revenue the government collects. A final vote on the measure, which contains $37 billion in already-approved spending cuts in every area but defen- se, is set for today. DEMOCRATS PROPOSED amen- dments they said would plug holes in Reagan's "safety net" of social programs, but their efforts were unsuc- cessful in the, Republican-controlled Senate. With political momentum on his side, Reagan meanwhile has approved a plan to save the Social Security program by making it less profitable for workers to retire early and providing incentives for them to stay on the job past the age of 65, sources said yesterday. The major points of the plan had been worked on for months by an ad- ministration task force. The president then briefed congressional leaders. 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