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...towards wealthier tenants--would only be exacerbated by the passage of the referendum. In the guise of increasing tenant "choice" and increasing the supply of affordable housing, Proposition 1-2-3 seeks to make a financial killing for Cambridge landlords at the expense of some of the city's poorest residents...
...year U.S. economic boom has produced great rewards, but they have not been distributed equitably. In a report issued last week, the Census Bureau found that the gap between rich and poor is widening. On the basis of a survey of 58,000 households, the bureau estimated that the poorest one-fifth of U.S. families received 4.6% of total income -- the lowest percentage since 1954. By contrast, the wealthiest one-fifth of families accounted for 44% of the income -- the highest share ever recorded...
Anderson's new home was donated by a church in nearby Pearl to a nonprofit organization called MadCAAP -- short for Madison Countians Allied Against Poverty -- which helps poor people in one of the poorest parts of the nation. Financed solely by donations and grants, MadCAAP takes old wood-frame buildings that local communities and private owners no longer need and hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled...
Disparities such as these prompted the Texas Supreme Court last week to declare the state's method of school finance unconstitutional. In a 9-to-0 decision, the court said the wide gaps between the richest and the poorest of Texas' 1,071 districts violate a provision of the state constitution requiring an "efficient" education. Funneling resources to poorer districts would reduce some of these differences. But money alone is not enough. What Texas schools need, said the court, is an overhaul. "A Band-Aid will not suffice," said Justice Oscar H. Mauzy. "The system itself must be changed...
...united in their municipal misery. Atlantic City once had a strong pull on Philadelphians and New Yorkers seeking the seashore, but air travel changed all that. When the city snagged the Democratic National Convention in 1964, its creeping tawdriness became a national story. By 1970 Atlantic City was the poorest town in New Jersey but the richest in reported cases of contagious diseases...