Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stride-Rite winner Joseph W. Secondine '92 agrees with Johnson's observation. "Like a lot of other people involved with PBH, I got draw into it slowly," says Secondine, who chaired the Committee on the Homeless and directed the Native American Youth Enrichment Program...
...homogeneous suburbs, people have less stake in solving the problems of people unlike themselves in the dimly remembered cities. It is also more tempting for them to dump their own problems there. Until last summer, Westchester County, a prosperous suburb of New York City, was exporting some of its homeless to a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Five years ago, the sewage-treatment plant in the bedraggled New Jersey city of Camden % began taking on sewage waste from every other community in the county. To protest the stench, residents stopped paying their annual $275 sewer fees. Last week the sewer authority...
...planner Allen Kracower has seen the signs of unwelcome change in an array of suburbs, even the most affluent. "At one time the suburbs were a place to escape," he says. "Schools were better. The air was cleaner. Now it's the same kind of crime, dirty air and homeless people...
...Furniture Bank relies on donations from a variety of sources. The city of Cambridge has given the bank the use of an office in the Cambridge Multi-Service Center, a building which also contains offices for several other homeless programs...
Bush was blamed because he "didn't care" about the average guy and because he "didn't do enough" to make things better. Of course, it goes without saying that the government should do something to help. If homeless people can't find jobs, well, that's one thing. But if the majority is hurt, then so much for the free market and "hands-off" government. And so much for bringing down inflation...