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...city is downplaying the housing problem by only dealing with individual groups of discontented tenants, rather than addressing the housing problem in the city as a whole, Cunningham said...
Cantabrigian William B. Cunningham told the council he believes that the city must deal with the housing problem by returning to rent control, using subsidies or both...
Tamerius is having another go at the House after garnering a disappointing 28% of the vote against incumbent Randy Cunningham in the 1994 election. She and Cunningham are an interesting pair: an ex-Army nurse against an ex-fighter pilot. But in response to all that military might, Tamerius is focusing on family and life-style issues...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...
Unlike such other recent works on the underclass conundrum as William Julius Wilson's When Work Disappears, Rosa Lee proffers neither theories nor proposals. Instead, Dash allows Cunningham's life story to speak for itself in all its depressing complexity. Cunningham's case was extreme even by the standards of the underclass, but it speaks volumes about the devastating combination of circumstance and personal flaws that condemns them to misery. By refusing to be judgmental, Dash illuminates the simplistic limitations on the far ends of the welfare debate. It is a problem, he strongly implies, for which neither side...