A group of female artists accused New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art of sexism because 95 percent of the paintings in the museum were by males, whereas 85 percent of the nude statues are female. As part of its program to provide summer jobs, the Washington D.C. government sent 2,500 youths to D.C. Artworks, a nonprofit group that supervised young people playing drums or dancing, among other activities. Paychecks were also supplied to kids who went to Marion Barry's Youth Leadership Institute. Youths who fail at one job site are simply transferred to a different job site. In Brown County, Wisconsin, the local jobs program has paid students for sitting in high school during the summer to make up the detention time they did not serve during the school year.
Many youths receive checks for time spent playing basketball.
The case involves Leshbia Morones, a mother of five whose husband also works, and who was docked for 10.1 hours pay for being late 51 times during a 6 month period. According to a congressional report, only one out of every four callers actually got through to an Internal Revenue Service office during the period of January 2 to April 24. It was also revealed that during 1993 the IRS answered 89 percent of taxpayers' questions accurately, up from only 63 percent correct in 1989. Some defense lawyers are asking courts to take this condition into account when they determine the guilt and punishment of inner-city residents. No other information about the exhibit was given.