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...despite the gains enjoyed by middleclass Blacks, the plight of lower class Blacks continues unbated...
...rise in female-headed households. While in the early '60s 23 er cent of Black families were headed by a female, today that figure has skyrocketed to over 40 per cent. Since female-headed ouseholds have less than half the income of two-parent families, this development means the plight of the poorest Blacks is worsening...
...greatly enjoyed Lance Morrow's Essay "Downsizing an American Dream' [Oct. 5]. While he recognizes the frustration of those who can't afford the type of home their parents owned, he neglects the plight of those whose parents were forced or chose to live in apartments. I am a second-generation rent-paying apartment dweller who has reconstrued the American dream to be a lofty one-bedroom, with Betamax and Jacuzzi, overlooking the lights of midtown Manhattan...
Moreover, the Europe-wide average understates the human plight, and political explosiveness, of unemployment that approaches 20% in such industrially depressed pockets as Northern Ireland and Belgium's Wallonia.* Warns Ivor Richard, European Commissioner for Social Affairs: "This is bound to place immense strains on the social fabric of our societies. With the increased propensity to violence amongst those who feel they have been victimized, this could threaten the very roots of our democratic and free societies...
...bleak as Poland's economic plight may seem, experts are not unanimous in writing the country off as incurable. Says the University of London's Portes: "Poland has the industrial capacity and the skilled labor force to come back quickly...