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Show National Debt U.S. total public of was PARADES SPECIAL nn by LLOYD SHEARER IfsTouqh c 1982 I BECAUSE mm D ub UD OF VOLUME OF MAIL RECEIVED debt the approximately $ 1 .05 trillion, on which the Treasury must pay annual interest of $100 billion. iiDfiDniin Dll D PARADE REGRETS IT CANNOT ANSWER QUERIES Womenin this country are getting the short end of the salary stick. Although Congress passed the Equal Pay Act m 1963 (equal pay for equal work ), women still are paid far less than their male counterparts. According to the latest Labor Department statistics, women were paid an working average of $224 a week in 1981, compared to $347 a week for men, a difference of 35.3. For every $100 a man earned, a woman earned just $64.70. Some economists have long held that women earn less because they are relatively inexperienced and do not hold down the highest-paipositions. The 1981 Labor Department study shows, however, that women were paid considerably less than men in the same occupations. For example, men averaged $366 a week in sales work, women only $190 a difference of 48. Where male salaried lawyers averaged $574 a week, females averaged $407. Men cooks averaged $202 a week, women cooks $ 148. Men service workers (janitors, cleaners, etc. ) were paid $238 a week, but women only $170 a week. Worse yet. the poorest people in the U.S. are women. They have, in fact, become our nouveau poor" According to a 1980 study, fully 90 of those receiving minimum Social Security benefits are women; 61 of all Medicare are women; 69 of food stamps are issued to households headed by women; and 80 of households receiving money from the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program are headed by women. Three out of every four Americans living in poverty are women. full-tim- e d en-rolle- most LlttlA111 Great universities will not . Ertte-TF- MlSS U-- 2 accept for enrollment any student younger than 17. One university that occasionally makes an exception is Oxford. That respected institution announced recently that in two years it plans to accept Ruth Lawrence, a English girl who shows all the symptoms of being a mathematics genius. Ruth is the bright-eye- d little of two daughter computer consul ! tants. She has never attended - school; her parents have tutored 5 her at home. When Ruth was 9, Before the President sat down with singer Merle Haggard (It to enjoy barbecue however, she passed the ordigiven by friends, the Gildreds, his food hws tested by W hite House taster nary level examinations in math, to where Reagan is dining. A Secret generally given students. Seven months later, Service agent goes along to proshe passed advanced level" math vide a double check, and Dr. Darnel with top grades. Ruge, the White House physician, Ruth attributes her success to accompanies Reagan just m case the fact that Daddy taught me he develops a little indigestion e the Its teaching relaor ptomaine poisoning. counts. that tionship Not long ago, when the PresiIf Ruth enters Oxford at 12, dent flew to his Sky Ranch near she will graduate when shes 15. Santa Barbara, Cal., Iynn and Some university officials are inStuart Giidred, his neighbors in clined to believe that the girl will the Santa Ynez Mountains, were be out of place in an adult hosts of a barbecue for 700 guests environment, but she says she is to celebrate in part the Reagans to get on with my maths." 30th wedding anmversaiy. Eddie eager Serrano, dressed as a cowboy, ... was on hand to test the chili beans Jt and other food. Where Reagans security is concerned, the Secret Service is covering every angle. Air Force One, the Presidents plane, has been equipped with radar deflectors, as has the Presidential helicopter. Commercial and private aircraft have been warned to fly at least a mile away from Reagans ranch when hes in residence. The Secret Service, in fact, has . . . one-to-on- vr-n-- become so super-cautiou- s that from January 1981 to January 1982, it even guarded the empty house Reagan then owned in Pacific Palisades, Cal. ELL Ruth Lawrence: Knack 8 for numbers PARADE APRIL IB, 1982 |
