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...times for the construction of additional penitentiary space have helped spur the hunt for alternative prison sites. Corrections officials are also being prodded by judges: in 1986, at least 32 states were operating under court orders to reduce overcrowding in facilities. But an even bigger cause is the space crunch resulting from tougher sentences. "Until the public changes its mind on putting people away for long years, we're going to have a serious problem," predicts C. Paul Phelps, head of Louisiana's corrections department, which has 3,500 prisoners backed up in local jails awaiting space in state prisons...
Other North House renovations, however, havebeen delayed--but since they were never planned toaccomodate students for the fall semester, theywill not cause a housing crunch...
...They have no way of getting to the fast-growing suburban areas where jobs in stores, hotels, fast- food restaurants and the like go begging; public transportation out to the suburbs is often nonexistent. They also do not have easy access to the resort areas, where the summer-worker crunch is particularly severe...
...deregulation revolution began under Presidents Ford and Carter, but the Reagan Administration embraced the idea with energetic zeal. Hack, chop, crunch! were the sounds during the early 1980s as Reagan's regulatory appointees stripped away decades' worth of business restraints like so much prickly underbrush on the President's ranch. The expense of complying with federal regulations, Reagan claimed, had cost Americans between $50 billion and $150 billion a year. After only ten days in office, he put a freeze on more than 170 pending regulations. A drastic pullback of Government involvement in business followed, especially in federal attempts...
With both Mom and Dad away at the office or store or factory, the child- care crunch has become the most wrenching personal problem facing millions of American families. In 1986, 9 million preschoolers spent their days in the hands of someone other than their mother. Millions of older children participate in programs providing after-school supervision. As American women continue to pour into the work force, the trend will accelerate. "We are in the midst of an explosion," says Elinor Guggenheimer, president of the Manhattan-based Child Care Action Campaign. In ten years, she predicts, the number of children...