Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ills. Now they ask the same question about the easy win in the gulf. In the weeks just after the war, Democrats longingly predicted a backlash at home from expectations raised and then dashed. What would happen, they mused, when Americans woke up the next morning to find the homeless still outside their doors, the addicts still shooting each other, their schools firing teachers for lack of funds? "People want to have their money back -- for their neighborhoods, for their streets, for their kids, for themselves," says Boston city councilor David Scondras...
...Ehrenreich, public service is inherently political. Activism goes "part and parcel" with community work, she says. "If the deaf committee held a really to support a bill in Congress, no one would think twice about it. But if the homeless committee did the same thing, there would be an uproar. Why is one more political than the other?" Ehrenreich says...
...increases and the elimination of 27,000 jobs. In an exercise of political brinkmanship, the mayor has targeted many worthy projects. He would slash education by $579 million, which means fewer teachers and larger classes -- even as enrollment leaps by 18,000 this year. He has marked 10 homeless shelters for closing. With tears in his eyes, Dinkins announced cuts in the infant-mortality program...
...list of threatened programs goes on and on -- and every agency and special-interest group in the city is crying out in protest. "If Dinkins is using these programs as bargaining chips, it is a cynical and irresponsible position," says Mary Brosnahan, director of the Coalition for the Homeless...
...depending upon the circumstances of the lives that they have chosen to lead." Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson's response was unequivocal: "There can be no doubt that the taking of the life of the President creates much more societal harm than the taking of the life of the homeless person...