STRICTLY BUSINESS/The Charlotte Post
February 1, 1996
CIAA seeks vendors
Continued frompage 6A
There’s no shortage of cus
tomers at the CIAA tourna
ment. Fans annually flock to
the host city to take in four
days of hoops, packing arenas
in the process. Winston-
Salem’s Joel Coliseum, which
seats 14,000 for basketball,
will host the tournament
through 1999, beating out
three other cities, including
Charlotte. The pavilion gives
minority- and women-run
businesses another avenue to
make money.
“One of the issues people raise
is the role of black- and
female-headed businesses and
their participation in the tour
nament,” Evans said. “We
want to have more of a pres
ence for black organizations
other than the schools
involved.”
Budget battles over?
Continued from page 1A
agree on,” Myrick said. “We
are working with the presi
dent’s staff, the White House
and coming up with proposals
that they are agreeable to and
we can pass here in the House
and move parts of the budget
forward.
“There were specifics on wel
fare reform. I don’t know how
that is going to come down.
We are agreeable to the tax
credit and the 'one strike and
you are out’ for people who
use drugs and live in public
housing. That’s something we
can agree on.”
“The main thing he said was
the ‘era of big government’ is
over,” Myrick said. “We want
to look for ways to do that.
There will be no furlough. The
continuing resolution is to the
15th of march. I don’t antici
pate another shutdown.”
Congress passed and
President Clinton signed on
Friday a bill that would con
tinue government operations
until March 15, with reduced
funding in most cases. Many
programs will be funded at 75
percent of 1995 levels, but the
bill essentially maintains the
status quo in several key
areas of dispute between the
Republicans and the
Democratic president.
The essence of the debate
bas been the Republicans
insistence the President
Clinton agree to balance the
federal budget within seven
years and sign a budget bill
that would begin that process.
The Republicans, based on
their so-called Contract with
America, would make deep
cuts in the rise in spending for
medicare and medicaid and
other social welfare programs.
At the core of the Republican
plan is the end of federal con
trol over these programs.
Instead, federal funds, in
reduced amounts, would be
sent to tbe states as block
grants.
The Republicans would how
ever, approved a $270 billion
tax cut, which, according to
Democrats, would largedly
benefit those with incomes
over $100,000 per year.
UNCC professor Vicki
Crawford said she’s “guarded
ly cautious” about President
Clinton’s budget plan, but
opposes the Republican plan
outright.
“It is clear that no matter
which budget is approved,
there will be drastic cuts in
these programs,” Crawford
said, “These programs are
going to be severely restricted.
Crawford said she also wor
ries about turning over money
for social programs to states
in block grants.
“States like Mississippi and
Georgia, these states have a
history. I don’t trust the states
to do a good job with the
money. In states like
Mississippi there have been
gross abuses of black families
receiving benefits. The welfare
system in Mississippi today is
not much better than in the
1960s.
“I think we need to become
very politically astute. My
opposition to Republicans is
not necessarily support for the
Democratic program.”
Democratic representative
Mel Watt said the Republican
plans would be devastating.
“It’s hard to imagine a worse
set of priorities for our country
than those set by the House
and Senate in the Budget
Reconciliation Bill,” Watt
said.
Watt, of N.C.’s 12th district,
said the Republicans would
make health care more expen
sive, less accessible and lower
quality for everyone, especial
ly the young, elderly and the
poor.
There would be leas com
mittment to education, higher
taxes on working people, less
nutrition, less immunization,
less protection and more
poverty for our children, he
said.
Eventually, local and state
taxes will increase, and the
gap between the rich and the
poor would widen. Watt said.
“Over seven years, N.C. citi
zens will lose $6.75 billion in
Medicare benefits and N.C.
hospitals will lose $2.17 bil
lion in medicare payments,
endangering the existence of
many of these hospitals or
forcing them to transfer these
costs to other patients,” Watt
said.
“The cumulative loss of fed
eral funds to North Carolina
and its citizens over the
seven-year budget peirod is
projected to be over $17 bil
lion,” Watt said. “Tbis
includes $6.75 billion in
Medicare cuts, $7.72 billion in
Medicaid cuts and over $2.6
billion in other cuts to federal
aid.”
Crawford said African
Americans must become pol-
litically active in the upcom
ing election. “In this country,
in the aftermath of the Million
Man March and mobilization,
I certainly think this next
election will be critical. Black
people need to mobilize and
get out the vote. If things con
tinue the way we are going.
I’m not very optimistic.”
UNC center’s director
continued from page 8A
Dean Smith, coach of UNC’s
men's basketball team; are
leading the effort. Another
committee of students, facul
ty, staff, alumni and commu
nity members is working to
gamer grassroots support.
Home says he's ready to roll
up his sleeves and start solic
iting donations, too. First he
plans to continue building
support on campus, then move
further afield.
"One of the things I'd like to
do to begin with is to reach
out across the campus to
make sure that the stakehold
ers are aware of what we're
seeking to do and that they
will support what we're seek
ing to do," he says. "Hopefully,
they will share with us some
ideas about what we could
and should do. Solidifying the
base is step one."
Horne, an expert on Africa
and 20th-century Afro-
American history, as well as
the film industry, envisions
the center taking the lead in
hosting conferences and sym
posia on topical subjects of
interest to the black communi
ty.
The current strained climate
of race relations across the
nation, as well as the state's
history, make the role of pro
grams like the Stone Center
even more compelling, accord
ing to Home.
Pupil assignment plan passed
Continued from page 1A
planned at the site near the
University Research Park.
The board voted Monday to
assign more students from
nearby University City-area
neighborhoods to the school.
That altered the number of
inner city children who could
enroll.
“I don’t believe they are
assigned there,” Davis said of
inner-city children. “They can
come, if they get transporta
tion.”
Davis said he’s also con
cerned about what’s happen
ing at Billingsville
Elementary.
“When it becomes a
Montessori (magnet), neigh
borhood children will be bused
out,” Davis said. “(School
board member) John Tate said
any child in the community
should be able to go, but they
are going to bus them to
Cotswold.
The Billingsville students
used to be paired with south
east Charlotte schools
Matthews and McKee elemen
tary schools.
Labor seek shorter work weeks
Continued from page 7A
Labor Ministry to delay its
plan to move to a 40-hour
workweek beginning in April
1997. The reason? The bottom
line.
Fewer hours usually means
companies end up paying
workers more overtime, and
“it is difficult for small and
medium-sized companies to
absorb the costs," the business
groups said in a joint state
ment in December.
But in much of Europe,
there is a growing sense that
40 hours a week plus overtime
is simply too much - and life's
pleasures too fleeting. In
Denmark, for example, work
ers put in 37.5 hours a week
and take a minimum five
weeks to get away from it all.
“No one ever said on his
deathbed, ‘I wish I spent more
time at the office,'" said Marc
Delacroix, a French railroad
welder who joined a 3 1/2-
week-long strike that para
lyzed France until just before
Christmas.
Germany is blazing the trail
to a shorter workweek and a
longer vacation, now a mini
mum six weeks. Most
Germans work 35 hours a
week, though not necessarily
because they want to.
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