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However it is happening, optimists say the door to real reform is now open. Cynics look at the narrow nature of the changes and shake their heads. Each modest economic decree is hedged with restrictions. Social tension could erupt, since those with families in the U.S. or jobs in tourism have access to dollars while government bureaucrats, doctors, engineers and the military do not. Cubans seeking to work for themselves must pass a check by the feared Ministry of Interior before getting a license; professionals -- anyone with a college degree -- are barred from self-employment. Farmers who want to sell...
Cisneros thinks an answer may lie in a new partnership between cities and the Federal Government. He has chosen Washington to launch a program that aims to shift the focus from cities' narrow efforts to erect emergency shelters to a more far-reaching campaign to provide the needy with social services and permanent housing before they ever land on the streets. The D.C. program calls for creating 1,000 permanent housing units, 100 job-training slots and 400 places in substance-abuse treatment facilities. The government will contribute $20 million in three installments over two years, but only...
PROFILE: Keeper of the Straight and Narrow...
That is all a far cry from the narrow spectrum of mostly Christian believers so celebrated by Crevecoeur, who foresaw "religious indifference" spreading from one end of the continent to the other. Where that would lead, he wondered, "no one can tell; perhaps it may leave a vacuum fit to receive other systems." In America's third century, that vacuum has been filled to overflowing...
...coming to an end. After being processed at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay and other immigration centers, millions of these rural folk found themselves confined to the mean streets of urban ghettos like Manhattan's , festering Lower East Side, working at menial jobs and crammed into narrow railroad flats that lacked both heat and privacy...