Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Advocates for the needy applauded the decision, which has continued to reverberate nationally. "If you silence a beggar, you cut off one of his or her most effective means of communication and advocacy," said Douglas Lasdon, executive director of the Legal Action Center for the Homeless. "If the homeless have received any assistance, it is because their pleas have been seen and heard." Burt Neuborne, a law professor at New York University, concurred, arguing that "to the extent subways are simply extensions of the streets, the same freedoms should apply in both places." But the MTA denounced the judge...
...First Amendment issue. Throughout history, begging has been regulated, monitored and sometimes prohibited; half the states in the U.S. currently have statutes that limit or ban begging. Yet Sand's reasoning could prove persuasive to other courts in search of answers to the problem of panhandling by the homeless. Moreover, his ruling is in line with three cases in the past decade in which the U.S. Supreme Court has held that professional fund raisers have a First Amendment right to seek donations...
...staffers empty them into special bins located on each floor. Bottles and cans are deposited in separate containers. The proceeds from the recycled paper will help defray the program's costs, and the money earned from the cans and bottles goes to We Can, an organization that helps the homeless...
...George Bush's America. A place where "there's a job for everyone who wants one"; where "women working outside the home can be confident their children are in safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
Special-interest groups are already lined up to grab whatever savings result from defense cuts. Supply-siders will argue for more tax reductions. Others will want to spend more on the homeless, education or the war on drugs. States and local jurisdictions are bidding for repairs in the country's deteriorating infrastructure: roads and bridges, mass transit, pollution-abatement facilities. A good case can be made for increased foreign aid so that America's global position will not shrink along with its military...