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...more than a lack of morals, as claimed by critics, it is the declining number of decent-wage jobs and an increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth that account for the pervasiveness, persistence and growth of poverty. "For the first time," says Northwestern University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less...
...most severe setbacks for the commuter-airline industry, the International Airline Passengers Association warned members about flying in planes with 30 seats or fewer. Some airline experts said the association, which also sells insurance to passengers, was overreacting. Says Aaron Gellman, director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern University: "It's not against their financial interests to make people worried...
Meanwhile, the United Nations said the Serbs hit the besieged northwestern Moslem town of Bihac, a U.N. "safe area," with two rockets today, killing three people and wounding at least 45. In the Hague, top military commanders from most of the 20 nations with U.N. troops in Bosnia said they now want to give peacekeepers attack helicopters and specialized troops to make the peacekeeping mission more effective...
Ressner, 37, has sharpened his skills during a dozen years of covering show business. Raised in Springsteen country -- Lakewood, New Jersey -- he majored in film at Northwestern University, then caught the first flight to Los Angeles. From a starting job at L.A. Weekly, he rose to positions as senior writer at Rolling Stone and West Coast bureau chief at US magazine. Since he joined TIME a year and a half ago, his assignments have included the Paramount-Viacom deal, the O.J. Simpson case and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction...
Shrugging off three separate nato air strikes -- including the largest air raid in Europe since World War II -- Bosnian Serbs continued their advance on the Bihac area of northwestern Bosnia. The besieged region, home to 180,000 people, was designated a United Nations "safe area" last year, and is strategically critical. Its capture would enable Serbs to link the territory to a Serb-controlled area of Croatia and the Yugoslav border, forming a part of what they envision as a "Greater Serbia." NATO and its member governments continued to debate an appropriate response, even as Serb forces swept forward, ready...