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T Saturday, Nov. 28. 1981 Philadelphia Inquirer 7-B Of U.S. budget cutbacks and the future of day care It's one of those little ironies of life. Because the federal deficit is too high, the Reagan administration is cutting funds for state and city-sponsored day-care centers for the children of the working poor. One of the reasons for this cutback is to help reduce the federal budget deficit. To encourage businesses to fund . day-care services for their employees' children, the new tax law makes that funding tax-deductible. But that offer will cost the government .revenue and will cause the budget deficit to rise. (Budget balancers may comfort themselves with the thought that more public programs will be cut than private programs started.) From a philosophical point of view, these changes sound like part of the President's grand design. He is shifting day-care services out of the public sector and into the private sector, Jane Bryant Quinn where he thinks they may be performed more efficiently. But there's a hitch. The children getting kicked out of the publicly funded day-care centers are not the same children likely to be helped by employer-sponsored services. Public centers - generally help women earning minimum "wages who might be working only part time, women who might otherwise stay home, mind their children and go on welfare. Day care is one of the community-support services that makes it possible for them to leave home and find productive work. Yet under the 1982 budget, government-assisted day care might be cut by 20 percent to 40 percent, depending on the state. Families helped by employer-funded programs, on the other hand, are not apt to be near-welfare cases. They are the typical new American working parents, members of the middle class. ' Effectively, these twin day-care initiatives shift tax money out of daycare centers for the children of the working poor and into centers for children of the middle classes. Not that middle-class parents can't use. the help. They most certainly can especially divorced and widowed parents, for whom day care is a special burden. But is it philosophically right, and budgetarily sound, to expand the tax-supported help available to middle-earners while cutting out the working poor? The administration is assuming that not many employers will actually set up tax-deductible day-care programs, so the revenue loss to the government won't be so great. In that regard, the administration may be right. The day-care provision, as originally introduced by Sen. Howard Met-zenbaum (D., Ohio), provided companies with a tax credit for day-care assistance, instead of the tax deduc-' tion that has always been available. A tax credit is worth more than a deduction in hard cash, and might have attracted a lot of corporate interest. As finally passed, the expense remains a tax deduction, but with this difference: Companies no longer have to include the cost of a worker's day-care assistance in his taxable wages. Starting Jan. 1, day care becomes a nontaxable employee benefit, just like employer-paid health insurance. Even before this law was passed, a handful of companies, hospitals and colleges already operated on-premis-es nurseries, or paid something toward the cost of outside child care for their employees." The question now is whether the administration's modest new tax incentive will encourage many more companies to start programs of their own. : Howard Hasbargen, a consultant in the Minneapolis office of Hewitt Associates, is optimistic about the spread of day-care coverage in certain fields, especially hospitals, retail stores and banks, which employ large numbers of women. "But some companies will need a push from the employees," he said. Committees of interested parents could do a lot fo get these programs moving. . , " Under the rules, a company may establish an on-site day-care center, pay the cost of care in an outside, center, or reimburse employees directly for day-care costs. The children must be tax-dependents under age 15. But the company's program may also cover day-care costs for a disabled spouse or other dependent. There are certain limits to payments to fathers for disabled spbuses, which could leave a covered employee with additional costs that he has to meet out of his own pocket. But in that case, he could use the child-care credit, available on his personal tax return, and perhaps wipe out his daycare expenses entirely. , New York Stock Exchange ISSUeS Continued from preceding page 12-Month P E Salts Net Mi Low Oiv. Y Ratio -100'$ High. 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Joyce Kuh'n and her son, Chris, 6, hunkered down on the floor near the eagle at Wanamakers. It was 45 minutes away from the next Christmas show in the big department store. But they Wanted to get a good spot, she said. "It seems to be more crowded than last; year," Mrs. Kuhn said. "My mother used to .bring me. Now that he's old enough, I wanted him to see it." By showtime, the parents and children were wall-to-well in the main aisle, and onlookers lined the store's upper balconies. A couple of blocks away, at Lloyd & Haig shoes, 1415 Chestnut St., it was a different scene. Salesmen Irv and Sam were relaxing. ' No customers were on hand. Business is fine, said Irv. Yes it's quiet now. "But we have our regular customers. They don't buy for the holidays. They buy when they need shoes." Though they didn't have any fig ures to rely on, large retailers and shopping-center marketers said crowds seemed traditionally large. "The traffic level looks very satisfactory and we're encouraged," said William Timmons, a Strawbridge & Clothier vice president. "The situation? Hysteria," said Grace McFeeley, marketing director at the Cherry Hill Mall. "It's wonderful. They're all here. "How do you tell if it's more crowded or less crowded? I don't suppose you could get another car in the parking lot. The line to see Santa Claus, that's one thing you can measure against last year. That you can judge, and I think it's longer than ever." Tradition was broken at Moores-town Mall, where stores opened at 9 a.m., an hour earlier than normal for Black Friday. It didn't work, said Belle Stephens, marketing director. "Things started out very slowly this morning," she said. "But it's really picked up. We have parking for over 6,000 cars, and almost all the spots are taken." Although Black Friday looked good, she said, the current recession can't be ignored. Many retailers have tried more and deeper discounting this season than previously, a strategy that may be partly responsible for the crowds yesterday, she said. "I hink what's happening is that people are buying at sale times," Stephens said. "We're all looking for a bargain now, looking to save $2 or $3 here and there. I think things are going to be tight. But none of the merchants are crying yet." One more thing. If the day is the year's biggest for retailers, why is it called. Black Friday? Because it is a day retailers make profits black ink, said Grace McFeeley of Cherry Hill Mall. "I think it came from the media," said William Timmons of Straw-bridge & Clothier. . "It's the employees, we're the ones who call it Black Friday," said Belle Stephens of Moorestown Mall. "We work extra hard. It's a long hard day for the employees." Defense boom not enough to pull Boeing out of slump, analysts say Associated Press SEATTLE Weapons and military-aircraft contracts are increasing at the Boeing Co., but analysts warn that the boom in defense work won't offset the slump in commercial jet sales. "Military sales will be a very meaningful part of Boeing's business, but I doubt if it will ever be more than 20 percent," Hans Pickert, an analyst with E.F. Hutton in New York, said Wednesday. Commercial jet sales constitute Boeing's cash crop, and sales in 1982 were expected to drop about 14 percent, T.A. Wilson, president of the aerospace giant, said earlier this week. Projects like the Air Launched Cruise Missile are "nice to have," said Wolfgang Demisch of Morgan Stanley & Co., the New York investment banking house, but a contract of a few billion dollars stretched over 10 years "isn't of a size to have more than a moderate impact on an entity that is the size of Boeing. This is a big company." Boeing's sales revenues in 1980 totaled $9.52 billion, with pretax-profits at a record $1 billion. Sales this year have been about equal to last year's pace, but profits for the third quarter, of 1981 took their first dive in five years. "It seems unlikely that 1982 earnings will return to the level of 1980," added John MacKenzie, an analyst with Foster & Marshall Inc. in Seattle. Even if airliner sales pick up, Boeing is in the midst of two new aircraft programs the 757 and 767 and startup costs will take a big bite out of profits, MacKenzie said. Military sales accounted for about $1.9 billion a year to Boeing for the last three years, based on the products delivered each year, said spokesman Jim Grafton. The figure for 1981 might be a little higher, he said. Even if military sales and orders did increase, the impact on the profits would not be great, said Pickert. Once production is in full swing, "you make about 4Vj percent after taxes," he said. That's lower than the profit margin on mature programs like the 747 and 727, but higher than margins for programs just getting under way. However, MacKenzie noted that military business is good "because it hires a lot of people." Boeing's major military contracts include: A $318 million congressional s appropriation for 705 Air Launched Cruise Missiles through fiscal year 1981 and $90 million for development. The first missile was rolled out Tuesday from a new Kent, Wash., facility, where Boeing expects to produce between 3,000 and 4,000 missiles over at .least seven years. The work force on the project was expected to be about 1,500. Congress capitulated to pressure from President Reagan and approved a sale of five AW ACS (airborne warning and control system) planes to Saudi Arabia for delivery in 1985. The U.S. Defense Department has ordered , 34 AWACS planes, and delivery has been scheduled to begin in March 1982. The total value of the hardware side of the contract is $3.9 billion. About 1,500 people work on AWACS, and Boeing planned to add 400 more next year. The Boeing Military Aircraft Co. is developing the electronic "offensive avionics system" for the B-1B bombers in addition to providing the controls and displays for the defensive and tail-warning .systems. Boeing expected to have 2,400 workers on the B-1B program at its peak at the end of 1982. The company's share of business on the aircraft was expected to be about $2 billion.

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