U.S. charities
suffer under
federal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's
charitable organizations, called upon to
help people who are losing government
benefits, have been hit hard ly federal
budget cuts, a private study said
yesterday.
The survey by Independent Sector of
its 400 national public service member
organizations discovered that groups
which might be expected to move in
with private aid were heavily depen-
dent on government programs that are
being pared.
"It is clear that federal budget cuts
impact disproportionately and severely
on people already vulnerable, par-
ticularly those who depend on gover-
nment-supported programs," said
Brian O'Connel, president of Indepen-
dent Sector.
IN SAN FRANCISCO, the study said,
the Salvation Army's family services
office is swamped by 100 requests a day
for emergency aid, most of them vic-
tims of cutbacks at the county welfare
office.
The March of Dimes in Wisconsin
reported that the loss of a $65,000 grant
to the Wisconsin Association for
Prenatal Care, "Will be a crushing
blow to prenatal care in Wisconsin."
In Roanoke, Va., the city social ser-
vices department reported that "frail
elderly and the disabled lost companion
services, 23 lost homemaker services,
12 families lost day care, five residen-
tial retarded lost special services, 55
retarded adults lost employment at
sheltered workshops, 464 persons with
mental or emotional crises lost short-
term, in-patient care..."
ALTHOUGH President Reagan once
suggested that the nation's voluntary
cuts
philanthropic groups could "take up the
slack" as the government withdraws
from many social services, he no longer
contends that.
O'Connell said his group's study
discovered that "religiously affiliated
social services, whether it's programs
of Jewish Welfare Federations or
Catholic Charities, are tremendously
linked to government funding."
"Catholic Charities in this country
receives 55 percent of its money from
government sources" through grants
and contracts to carry out social
programs, he said.
The Independent Sector report also
said there "has been an unrealistic
assumption that corporate giving can
somehow leap forward to assist volun-
tary organizations in trouble."
CORPORATIONS, like foundations,
give only 5 percent of the total dollars
contributed to charities each year.
Ninety percent of the $53 billion in an-
nual contributions comes from in-
dividuals, most of whom make less than
$20,000 a year.
O'Connel said the study found that the
Reagan administration's economic
program is "unfortunately and uninten-
tionally creating welfare dependency
rather than building the kind of
programs the president believes in to
help these people pull themselves out of
welfare."
". . . The cuts impact most heavily
on populations already vulnerable, par-
ticularly those who depend on gover-
nment-supported programs relating to
job training, income assistance, other
social services, legal services, basic
health care, housing and special sper-
vices for handicapped such as special
education classes," he said.
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Outspoken
theologian
By BILL SPINDLE
The University announced yesterday
that world-renowned Swiss theologian
Hans Kung will join the faculty in the
fall of 1983.
Kung, a Catholic priest who gained
fame for his outspoken views on
religion, will be a full-time professor for
at least a term in the University's Near
Eastern Studies department and the
Studies on Religion program.
"KUNG WILL be a great asset for the
University, especially because of his
viewpoints on religion and science,"
said Prof. Gernot Windfuhr, chairman
of the Near Eastern Studies depar-
tment. Kung will provide student and
faculty members with a "new
viewpoint" on religion, he added.
Kung came to campus last November
to give an address at Rackham Am-
pitheater. During his visit, it was
rumored that Kung had been offered a
faculty position.'
w According to LSA Dean Peter
Steiner, Kung has agreed to teach one
full academic term. His affiliation with PPG Industries' employee Bob Se
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