Word: kemp
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...adult and child in the country -- to fight it. Before that speech and since, Bush has avoided the issue, seldom addressing it in public or in his arm-twisting of lawmakers. But since Los Angeles erupted, a handful of conservative activists among his advisers, led by Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, have been urging the President to fight for new market-oriented, antibureaucratic approaches to poverty -- including programs that Bush himself had halfheartedly proposed in previous budgets. As William Bennett, the former drug policy director for Bush, observed, "If you're going to denounce a set of programs that...
PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC HOUSING. Kemp has long worked to convert housing- project tenants into homeowners with a stake in their community. Bush has paid only lip service to the program, known as hope. Congress last year approved it in principle, but denied it serious funding and required, in a typical cut-the-baby-in-half compromise, that another housing-project unit must be built for each one that is turned over to tenant ownership. The White House budget office has calculated that this scheme would cost about $100,000 a unit, and that tenants as well as taxpayers would...
...INCENTIVES. Kemp wants to eliminate capital-gains taxes and reduce levies for businesses that locate in inner-city "enterprise zones." Conservatives also would increase the Earned Income Tax Credit, to make even minimum-wage jobs more attractive than living on welfare...
...series of Cabinet meetings last week, Bush was warned by some of his more cautious advisers, led by Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, that a full- court press for antipoverty programs would entangle the Administration in a bidding war with the Democrats. But Bush sided with Kemp and the other reformers -- in part because private polls and focus groups showed that his hesitant initial response to the riots had undermined his reputation for decisive leadership in a crisis. Still, some advisers doubt that Bush will make passage of conservative antipoverty programs a real priority, given his neglect of them...
...political support, it is unrealistic to expect the President to direct a mass transfer of resources toward the economic inequality that plagues America's minorities. But there is a good deal else that can be done, and Bush should begin listening to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, the only Administration player who has thought seriously about urban problems. Kemp's proposals to turn over public-housing units to tenants and his incentive schemes to tempt business and industry into the inner cities have got nowhere with Bush. They should...