Word: core
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hard-core poverty statistics are misleading, since the accepted criteria (less than $4,000 a year for a family or $2,000 for an individual) classify as poor many elements of the population, notably students, servicemen and many small farmers, who live reasonably well. Many of those who are considered "impoverished" today are clothed, housed, fed, educated and entertained (TV in 93% of U.S. homes); hunger and exposure have "statistically disappeared" as causes of death...
...most, there are 600,000 married men with families in the U.S. who can be classed as longterm, hard-core cases of unemployment. Though the commonly cited figure for the jobless is nearly 5,000,000, among them are close to 1,000,000 youths under 24, more than 2,000,000 "short-term" jobless and many others who are seeking only part-time work...
...intelligent Americans dispute the gravity of many ills that afflict the nation, from hard-core unemployment to rotten-core cities, poisoned air to polluted waters, or question the need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...
...broad-shouldered man with the deep, forceful voice of a Biblical prophet. He is immensely articulate, though tending to hold up a reserve of measured conviction. Often he seems preoccupied and one can guess that he's ruminating on some new plan or old problem in CORE's operation...
...CORE is growing, with more than 75,000 white and Negro members already, and Farmer is pushing the battle for recruits into gin joints, pool halls and candy stores. He further solicits support for his cause in a weekly newspaper column, and in a new book, to be serialized by Playboy magazine called Freedom When. Farmer's answer is "not very soon." That's one reason why in the Negro's long struggle for freedom, CORE is lucky to have a man in command who doesn't tire of the battle...