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...eight bureaus took to the streets to interview hundreds of poor people, as well as the social workers, job-program administrators and academics now trying to find some way of helping them. They spent days and nights in sections of cities-Los Angeles' Watts, New York's Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chicago's Humboldt Park and Garfield Park, and Miami's Northwest Side-already infamous for poverty and crime and desperation. For most the assignment was profoundly saddening. Says Boston Correspondent Jack White: "I'm sick of singing this same old saga. I wish...
Though this subculture is predominantly black, many Hispanics and more than a few poor whites belong to the underclass. Among the most glaring subgroups: the Appalachian migrants to dilapidated neighborhoods of some cities, the Chicanos of the Los Angeles slums, the Puerto Ricans of Spanish Harlem. But the Hispanics appear to be moving ahead somewhat faster; 55% of the nation's blacks, v. 49% of the Spanish-speaking minorities, still live in the mostly depressed areas of central cities. The black concentration in the cities seems fated to increase because the birth rate among blacks is 51% higher than among...
...unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans, and SBA officials anticipated a total of about 3,000 applications for $60 million by their deadline of Sept. 16. Community leaders were confident that at least two-thirds of the stores will reopen. Explained Julio Vazquez, a Spanish Harlem congressional aide: "In most cases, they've invested all they've got. Besides! where else are they gonna...
...gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage boy in Harlem said with a trace of wistfulness: "Christmas is over...
...crazy? You think anybody in his rightful mind would want to get back to this neighborhood?" Yet quite a few merchants were thinking of doing just that. "I have to pay off the creditors," said Gary Apfel, owner of Lee's Store, a men's clothing store in Harlem. "I want to close, but I can't afford to close...