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...court order, Florio pushed the Democratic-controlled legislature to agree to $2.8 billion in new taxes, including an increase in sales tax from 6% to 7%, along with deep cuts in state jobs and spending programs. He also redirected a portion of state education aid from suburban schools to poorer inner-city districts...
...country." After his Inauguration, in his first address to Congress as President, he said, "We must care for those around us. A decent society shows compassion for the poor." Kind and gentle words all, yet today 2 million more Americans live in poverty, and the poor are even poorer than when Bush became President...
Take, for example, poverty and legacy admissions, two interrelated phenomena. Many conservatives are poorer than the average Harvard student and more likely to come from working-class backgrounds. It would be condescending to assume out-of-hand that the same holds true of minority students. But given that more minorities in this country are poorer than the populations at large, and given that fewer minority students than non-minority students had parents who went to Harvard, I think that the assumption is reasonable...
...killed by a sniper. Fears that random gun battles would break out in the downtown office area led businesses to dismiss their employees for the weekend by Thursday afternoon. Several roadways were cordoned off by police to prevent destruction from spreading north to Hollywood and Beverly Hills from the poorer regions of the city...
...centralized communist system. By the time of his death in 1980, the country was already unraveling. Political power had decentralized, the relatively prosperous economy was faltering, and old tensions began to rise. The richer republics of the northwest, Slovenia and Croatia, felt their development was hampered by the poorer republics of Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. Serbia was hated by the rest for dominating the government and the army; in turn it saw preserving unity at all costs as a mission, given weight by fears that Serbs in other republics were threatened by emerging nationalist regimes...