Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They warn Carter against budget cutting at the expense of the poor...
...than a year they had watched Jimmy Carter, the man they had helped make President, moving toward a more and more conservative economic policy. Now there was open talk that the Administration's fight against inflation would mean substantial cuts in federal spending on programs to help the poor. Unemployment would rise, and there might soon be a recession. The black leaders felt slighted and betrayed...
Through a stiff and difficult 30-minute session, the dozen members of the Black Leadership Forum criticized and interrogated Carter. "We're deeply disturbed by what we've heard," said Joseph Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "We don't feel the poor and the minorities ought to bear the burden," said Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind. At one point Coretta Scott King, who campaigned extensively for Carter in 1976, said: "I've just been sitting here. I haven't said anything because I'm so deeply troubled...
Although Administration economists correctly point out that the poor are inflation's first victims, blacks still suffer an 11.5% rate of unemployment, only recently down from 14%. Joblessness among black teenagers stands at 35%, and blacks still make up a disproportionate share of the nation's poor...
...authentic election campaign in an emerging African nation. Buses adorned with blue and white balloons labored up and down the main street of Windhoek, the sun-swept territorial capital, loudspeakers blaring "Vote! Vote! Vote!" Mobile polls were transported to practically every village in Namibia, the resource-rich, population-poor (about 1 million) stretch of desert known as South West Africa that South Africa's white regime has ruled as a protectorate since 1920. Yet the result, reports TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter, was about as real as the mirages of the Kalahari sands that stretch for trackless miles across...