Energy and the Elderly: Food Or Fuel : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Retirement Income and Employment of the Select Committee on Aging, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, October 5, 1979, West Islip, N.Y. |
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ABRAMS accidental hypothermia administration agencies applied assistance program Babylon Babylon Town BRARY Brentwood budget BUTLER cold Committee on Aging concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressman Downey Congressman Green cost of living Director division of senior elderly eligibility energy needs Federal fixed incomes fuel assistance fuel bills fuel costs fuel oil funds gallon going Governor Carey hearing heat their homes heating season home heating fuel home heating oil households increase Jerry Kramer legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LILCO Long Island low-income ment month NELSON older Americans older persons Patchogue payment poor poverty level PREPARED STATEMENT problem received rent Retirement Income Robert Select Committee Senator Lack senior citizens senior citizens services social security SPAROCIA State's Subcommittee on Retirement Suffolk County temperature testimony Thank told town of Islip vendor West Islip windfall profits tax winter York
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Page 4 - Times such as ours have always bred defeatism and despair. But there remain nonetheless some few among us who believe man has within him the capacity to meet and overcome even the greatest challenges of the time.
Page 3 - But there are those among us who believe that man has within him the capacity to meet and overcome even the great tests of our times.
Page 3 - If we want to avoid defeat, we must wish to know the truth and be courageous enough to act upon it. If we get to know the truth and have the courage, we need not despair.
Page 23 - In recent month?, prices have been increasing a penny per week, and there is every indication that the cost of heating oil will continue to escalate.
Page 17 - The rich get richer and the poor get poorer," was probably never truer for any other period in our Nation's history.
Page 30 - The program would be operated with a minimum amount of red tape and a maximum amount of efficiency.