Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post-1965 influx of immigrants jammed the already crowded and inadequate housing and schools in Boston's Chinatown, one of the most densely populated areas of the city. Health care falls far below the needs of the people living there. For example, the tuberculosis rate is three times as great, and the infant mortality rate 2.5 times as great, as those of the entire metropolitan area. Many Chinese arrived unskilled, and most of those who had training couldn't use it to find a job because they lacked facility in English. Eighty-five percent of the adult population in Chinatown...
Guam was not the U.S. Government's first choice. A far more convenient location was Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, where the first 10,000 evacuees from South Viet Nam were processed. But a day after the big influx began, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos let it be known that the refugees were not altogether welcome; with Manila seeking an accommodation with both Peking and Hanoi, Marcos worried about offending these potential friends. Almost immediately, those who had begun to settle into Clark's "Tent City" were hustled aboard Air Force C-141s and a chartered American...
California officials-including the Governor and both U.S. Senators -voiced alarm at the influx. California's health and welfare secretary, Mario Obledo, cabled Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to warn that the state could ill afford to absorb large numbers of homeless refugees since it already has "952,000 unemployed; 2.4 million receiving some form of medical or welfare aid; 4 million near the poverty levels; and 20 million paying taxes as close to the maximum tax as is acceptable in free enterprise." Plans are already afoot to isolate some 64,000 refugees in two aging Army outposts...
...appallingly low annual rate of 980,000. In California alone, 23% of the labor force in the construction industry is jobless. Housing executives hope that the new federal tax credit of up to $2,000 for buyers of new homes will eventually generate some business. Also, since a record influx of funds continues to pile up in savings institutions, mortgage money is becoming more plentiful and interest rates are going down...
...Indochina called in question the whole political scaffolding on which they rested. And it was still more telling that the most important political figure still obviously concerned with what happened in Vietnam--as opposed to what happened in the United States--was President Ford, visibly moved by the influx of Vietnamese orphans and bewailing his lack of legal authority to continue bombing their country...