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...Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack F. Kemp talks endlessly about "empowerment" and "enterprise zones," by which the government would give tax and regulation breaks to firms that locate in low employment, high poverty areas...
Some of these ideas are being picked up on Capitol Hill. Democratic Senator David Boren of Oklahoma last March proposed a bill to create a modern-day version of the WPA. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, bipartisan momentum seems to be building behind Housing Secretary Jack Kemp's "empowerment" approach. By offering tax breaks to entrepreneurs investing in 50 inner-city "enterprise zones," Kemp hopes to generate new jobs and wean welfare recipients off the dole. That trickle-down solution seems problematic: it will take more than fiscal lures to bring major investment into rubble-strewn areas...
...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...
What the Administration might do is not yet clear. It has been trotting out Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp to talk up a conservative- activist agenda featuring inner-city enterprise zones and measures to enable public-housing tenants to own their apartments, but Bush has not made it a priority. He has so far promised $600 million in federal assistance for rebuilding. More might be needed. Property damage is already estimated at $785 million, and the figure is bound to go higher, quite likely topping $1 billion. An estimated 10,000 businesses have been shut down, many never...
...content, or at least for its semblance, the White House is renewing its call for enterprise zones and tenant ownership of federal housing projects -- ideas Bush has rhetorically supported for years but has never pushed in any meaningful way. He has already rediscovered Jack Kemp, the Housing and Urban Development Secretary slighted and scorned for three years because he too frequently and too passionately spoke of the need for a domestic policy worthy of the term. In his own departure, Kemp will fulfill his new role as the Administration's ultimate team player. "Don't try to divide me from...