Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they can hire the unemployed for public service jobs. The CETA program has been roundly criticized for putting workers into jobs that provide no useful training for employment in the private economy. None theless, CETA cuts would anger blacks, who regard the program as of potential benefit to ghetto youths, and organized labor, which already is very unhappy with Carter. Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the Stage II wage-price guidelines as unfair and demanded a special session of Congress to establish mandatory controls. He also took a swing at the dollar-rescue program, contending that...
During her regime, the Panthers pursued a number of social enterprises that had been started under Newton. They founded and still operate the Oakland Community School, which provides high-level education to 150 ghetto kids. There was and is a program that helps old people to go out shopping and another that provides school lunches. One Panther program offers dances for teen-agers and training in martial arts. Says Oakland County Supervisor John George: "Huey could take street-gang types and give them a social consciousness...
Today the mythic has become real; cheap handguns and narcotics have become the outlets for aggression. Ironically, desegregation is partly responsible. Middle-class blacks, once a restraining force in the ghetto, have moved out and left behind lower-class enclaves. Social ties that still bind Hispanics, like family and religion, have worn away. Though blacks increasingly attack whites, most of their victims are other blacks...
...FILM THEN moves to Woody's ancestral home, Flatbush, Brooklyn, where he was born Arthur Allen Koenigsberg in an apartment building on Avenue K and East 15th Street. He grew up in the classic Jewish, middle-class ghetto, where the central dream is educating the children who will become well-off doctors, lawyers, engineers. As Woody put it later on, "My parents' dominant values were God and carpet." In all movies in which his parents appear, they are heavily parodied. In few interviews does he mention his parents or his childhood in any but the most joking tones, the most...
...peer ties can be more than merely individual benefits; as some of one's white peer becom governors, financiers, managers, legislators, etc., the peer linkages forged at Harvard become potential agencies of actions that might have great benefit to, for example, skill-training policies for unskilled and semiskilled black ghetto youths. Both public policy and private deavors related to such issues concerning average black can be influenced be personal ties--its that begin right here at Harvard College...