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...contrast, many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes, and poorly funded schools. According to a 1990 Census Bureau report, the Black poverty rate stood at 31.9% and the Hispanic poverty rate at 28.1%; the white poverty rate was 10.7% in 1990. Also in 1990, three out of five Black families were maintained by single parents...
...Kaus maintains that the first problem civic liberals must eliminate is the persistence of underclass. If the United States can somehow raise its poorest citizens' standard of living, other Americans won't be able to justify their flight from the public sphere. The perceived threat that the poorly-educated, crime-ridden underclass poses to the children of the wealthy and the middle class will disappear, and Americans will find their way back into public parks, public schools, public transportation and the like...
...crime-ridden Southeast Washington, Bush linked his assigned topic, outdoor recreation, with urban unrest. "The outdoors is a perfect playground for the entire family," he said, "for whole communities to come together. We all saw what happened out there in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, a community that was divided and torn apart." The next day, with nary a mention of Rodney King, Bush praised policemen as "that thin blue line that separates good people from the worst instincts of our society...
...very important in terms of planning are your contacts with community people. These people are your best front line of communication. I don't care whether it is the poorest, the most crime-ridden and downtrodden neighborhood or the most successful neighborhood. The contacts can be church leaders, they can be businesspeople or a neighbor who is out there every day washing off the steps and sidewalk. Part of a commander's job is to be able to pick up the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning and say, "Bob, Mary, I need you out here," and know...
...federal spending -- far less than the value of corporate tax breaks and other welfare for the wealthy. "You can't write off Duke's voters as racists," says Tony Snow, the chief White House speechwriter. "Duke is talking about things people really care about: high taxes, crummy schools, crime-ridden streets, welfare dependency, equal opportunity. A lot of politicians aren't talking about these things...