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The Economic Stimulus Appropriations Act of 1977 was a stimulus package enacted by the 95th Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on 13 May 1977. [1] Developed in response to the longest and deepest economic recession post World War II, the primary objective of the stimulus package was to provide the economy with a boost.
Proposals contemplated by the Carter administration include a guaranteed minimum income, a federal job guarantee for the unemployed, a negative income tax, and direct cash payments to aid recipients. In early 1977, Secretary Califano presented Carter with several options for welfare reform, all of which Carter rejected because they increased ...
Hakes also noted that various bills that Carter signed into law supercharged solar efforts at the Department of Energy — an agency that was also formed during Carter’s term — and “I would ...
In 1978, Carter signed a bill into law "allowing homebrewing and small-scale craft brewing to operate legally". [205] The new law deregulated the American beer industry by making it legal to sell malt, hops, and yeast to American home brewers for the first time since the 1920 beginning of prohibition in the United States. [206]
(To his credit, Carter used the pardon power liberally, issuing 534 during his single term —more than any president since—including two-termers Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama ...
Relating to Federal pay administration July 20, 1977 39 12005 Amending the Generalized System of Preferences July 23, 1977 40 12006 Exemption of G. Joseph Minetti from mandatory retirement July 29, 1977 41 12007 Termination of certain Presidential advisory committees August 22, 1977 42 12008 Presidential Management Intern Program August 25, 1977
“Don’t pay any attention to that smile. That don’t mean a thing,” said Ben Fortson, Georgia’s secretary of state for a period of 33 years that included Carter’s tenure as governor ...
June 19 – President Carter vetoes H.R. 3161, citing his discontent with the bill being due to the measure's reduction on the work week of firefighters without reducing the premium pay intended for a longer standby schedule in addition to charging it with impairing "the ability of agency heads to manage the work force and regulate the work ...