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...Gramm-Rudman," says Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel of Harlem. This week the House will take up a $2 billion-to-$3 billion antidrug package that will fund every weapon in the war on drugs, from more radar balloons for the border patrol to more drug-treatment centers in the ghetto...
Beyond the personal tragedy and waste is the cost to society. As drugs have moved out of the ghetto and into the workplace, as bus drivers and lawyers and assembly-line workers get hooked, innocent consumers are put at risk. The cost to employers from drug abuse -- from lost productivity, absenteeism and higher accident rates -- is estimated at about $33 billion by the government. At a time when America is losing foreign markets to nations that can outproduce the U.S., the economy itself stands to suffer...
...driving beat and chanted lyrics echo the pulse and pitch of inner-city streets. But rap music also draws out a meaner side of ghetto life: gang violence. When some 14,500 fans poured into Long Beach Arena near Los Angeles last week for a concert featuring the popular rap group Run-D.M.C., more than 300 members of black and Hispanic street gangs swarmed through the crowd, attacking everyone around them. Audience members struck back with metal chairs and whatever else came to hand, until police armed with batons broke up the concert. Forty-five people were injured, including...
National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, Washington. Run by Robert L. Woodson, a black former social worker and previously a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Identifies self-help groups in the ghetto and inner city and helps link them -up with corporate funders and policymakers...
Gang violence, a scourge of ghetto and barrio life in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York for decades, erupts with numbing regularity in America's biggest cities. But these three gang-related murders -- committed in Jackson, Miss., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Atlanta respectively -- mark the emergence across the American South of organized teenage gangs inspired by models in the North and West...