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...threatened to stop delivery this week unless its bill is paid -- the district owes about $2.5 million to its creditors. Central Falls, R.I., has asked the state to take over its schools rather than be forced to fire almost 100 of its 200 teachers. Montgomery County, Md., an affluent suburb of Washington, must locate $65 million in savings next year. "We're trying to find a way not to cut into classroom programs," says Brian Porter, director of information for the school system, "but not hurting classroom teaching is next to impossible...
...fully support his outrage. They show that, instead of improving at a steady pace, the nation's infant-mortality rate leveled off at 9.7 deaths per 1,000 births in 1989. It now stands at twice the rate of Japan and below that of 23 other countries, including less affluent ones like Spain and Singapore. More troubling, infant mortality remains one of the nation's starkest measures of the separation between blacks and whites: twice as many black babies as white die within their first year...
...more appropriate question is why the U.S. has been so short-sighted about investing in its children. For a generation, public spending has tilted toward the needs of the elderly, including those who are relatively affluent, and away from the next generation. As ever, when it comes to spending priorities, elected officials usually follow the dictates of the most potent voters. Budget Director Richard Darman has eloquently denounced "now-nowism" -- America's tendency to spend frivolously today rather than invest sensibly in tomorrow -- even as the White House and its most powerful constituents embrace it. Proposals to raise education standards...
...yuppie mystique was built around a sense of generational entitlement that had its roots in the prosperity of the 1950s and '60s. In these more parlous times, there is an undeniable tempering of wanton consumption, but affluent baby boomers cannot cast off the experiences of a lifetime merely by switching outfits at the Gap. As marketing consultant Judith Langer puts it, "Values don't change overnight. Life-styles don't change overnight...
Despite the stereotype of the population in the Square as affluent and up-scale--the kind of people who might not be interested in The Deal's two-for-ones--Anthony says he has found that "it's completely opposite with people around here...