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Among Haiti's tight-knit ruling class, Aristide and his clerical colleagues are hated. But the people from the shantytowns, especially Haiti's eternally jobless young men, believe in him. "He's the messiah," says one youth, lounging in La Saline, the slum behind Aristide's church. During his sermons in the summer, the priest rarely failed to attack the regime and the U.S. government that supports...
What went wrong for the 4 million black Americans still trapped in festering inner-city ghettos? Why do one-third of all black families remain mired in poverty? Why is the jobless rate for black teenagers 40%? Why are 60% of all black children born out of wedlock? And why has the American ghetto become a self-perpetuating nightmare of fatherless children, welfare dependency, crime, gangs, drugs and despair...
...recent debate over poverty has stressed the need to provide jobs and training for welfare recipients like Carla Smith. But by making welfare the crux of the problem, both liberals and conservatives have ignored the single most serious cause of the misery of the ghetto: the shockingly high jobless rate among young black men. Unskilled and ill-educated, these young men are the true victims of America's dramatic transition away from a manufacturing base. Even when there is decent-paying work available, Wilson contends that social isolation excludes the black underclass from the "job- network system" that permeates other...
...unemployment among youths frighteningly high? It is indeed: 15.9% among teenagers generally, 33.3% for black teenagers. Unfortunately, many of the jobless youngsters are stuck in central-city ghettos. They have no way of getting to the fast-growing suburban areas where jobs in stores, hotels, fast- food restaurants and the like go begging; public transportation out to the suburbs is often nonexistent. They also do not have easy access to the resort areas, where the summer-worker crunch is particularly severe...
...least liked of the main party leaders. While supporters regard the Prime Minister with something approaching awe, opponents like to caricature her as a hectoring nanny or, worse, a leader insensitive to the needs of the poor and the unemployed. At 10.9%, or 3 million people, the number of jobless, for example, is up dramatically from the 4.3%, or 1.1 million, when Thatcher took over in 1979. Labor Leader Kinnock calls the unemployment situation a "lead weight of misery dragging down the British economy." Thatcher's attitude, he said last week, would lead Britain to have "beggars in the street...