Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic decline aggravated by massive layoffs on Wall Street. To balance the city budget, he must raise $850 million from higher taxes and slash services by $303 million. That will mean backing away from campaign promises to put a cop on every subway train and provide housing for the homeless. Managing cutbacks would be difficult under any circumstances, but Dinkins has filled many of the top posts in his administration with outsiders, such as Police Commissioner Lee Brown (recruited from Houston) and Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers (from Indianapolis), who have no experience in New York's intricate local politics...
...Ruby showed us what is possible, what mind and soul can do given an opportunity," he said. "Let us be worthy of our 'Rubys.' Let us see the day when 100,000 of our children won't be homeless, when we do better than the more than dozen nations who do better than us in infant mortality rates...
...often official America seems willing to let the rest of its own society go by too. It pretends the tabloid atrocities on TV news shows are aberrations. It either closes its eyes to the human street litter -- the homeless, the junkies, the insane -- or blames them for not getting with the program of self-help economics. It largely ignores the ghetto, where the black underclass has built its own furious culture on the slag heap of Great Society failures. It discounts much of the young white working class, in tattered towns and trailer parks, who feel left out of bland...
...young women to almost despise the nurturing role." Indeed, now that Bush is on her own, she is holding her own. Rather than hype fashion designers or choose new White House china (she is replacing chipped plates one at a time), Bush spends her days drawing attention to the homeless, AIDS patients, the poor, and those whose lives have been so impoverished they never learned to read. For Wellesley students, says Hewlett, Bush "has all sorts of wisdom about what half of their lives will be" -- of the victories of motherhood, small and evanescent, which occur largely behind closed doors...
Meanwhile, PBHA plans to continue the pressure. Tuesday's meeting was "hopefully the first of many," Theoharis said. "There are a great many people who feel strongly that it is about time to see an increase in Harvard's commitment to affordable housing and the homeless. A James Taylor concert is not enough...