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Word: percapita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Underemployed, and vastly swelling migration of the Underemployed to the city. Having plenty of excess Underemployed Housing around to absorb large numbers of immigrants, the city winds up with the same sort of problem in the end, but on a larger scale. In addition, because Underemployed require higher percapita tax expenditures for police and welfare, the local tax burden rises. This has the effect of further discouraging construction of New Enterprise, and depressing upward job mobility...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: An Answer From the Computer--Why Urban Programs Backfire | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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