Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheer size of California puts its deficit, estimated to be as high as $10 billion, in a class by itself. To close the gap, Wilson has proposed cutting the state's grants to poor women and children 9%, eliminating programs for the homeless and freezing all cost-of-living increases for state employees. So far, he has not breached the state's decade-long resistance to new income or property taxes. In an effort to raise $1.7 billion, however, he has asked for higher vehicle-license fees, a 20% increase in state university and college tuition, and an extension...
...Sverdlovsk's Ural | Polytechnic Institute in 1950. In the summer of 1952, Yeltsin hitchhiked and worked his way around the Soviet Union, sleeping where he could and stowing away on trains. "It taught me a lot," he says, "when I spent the night in sheds with poor and homeless people." Yeltsin's empathy for ordinary folk is one of his most remarkable political gifts. A woman construction worker sporting a Yeltsin button in Moscow's Pushkin Square said, "He's the first Russian leader I can understand. He speaks in a way that simple people can grasp...
Three Million Strong: Portraits of the Homeless at the Boston Public Library through April...
...private point and private point, between home and office, insulating themselves from the unexpected. The Conscience of the Eye is an attempt to explore the origins and implications of this condition of insulation, to explain the curious feeling of unconnectedness that is familiar to anyone who has passed a homeless man on a grate, or observed through plate-glass windows the comings and goings of strange offices and apartments...
...that path could prove ruinous at a time when 29 deficit-ridden states are unable to provide adequate financing for such vital needs as education, housing and police protection. The cost of two days of fighting surpasses the $937 million that Congress voted last year for aid to the homeless. Meanwhile, demands on the budget are swiftly growing. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady warned last week that the savings and loan bailout will require $77 billion more in emergency funds to remain in operation past March of this year...