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Miami is the fourth poorest city in the U.S., mainly because anybody with any money has long since moved out of town. Miami Beach, a separate municipality, has most of the area's prime beaches and luxury resorts, as well as the hip, Art Deco district of South Beach. Outside a thin necklace of fancy hotels, parks and wealthy enclaves lining the waterfront, Miami comprises largely the kind of inner-city neighborhoods that never make it into the tourist brochures. Middle-class flight--first of whites and now of Cubans--has made Miami increasingly a city of struggling, often illegal...
This fall, after President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill ending the guarantee of cash assistance to many of the nation's poorest children, Mary Jo Bane, assistant secretary for families and children at the department of health and human services (HHS) and a former Weiner professor of social policy, abruptly submitted her resignation...
Borow envisions a District 7, one of Chicago's poorest, "where there is no need for welfare" and believes that empowerment zones, tax reform and faith in God will get it there. Piety may not mean much elsewhere, but in the rough-and-tumble Seventh, blind faith may just be a potent political platform...
Rogers is the answer to those who believe the G.O.P. is the party of the wealthy: the Fifth District is one of the poorest in the nation and Rogers is running unopposed. His ability to help bring in flood-control projects, education development and a musical-arts center in Prestonsburg have helped make him a popular incumbent, no matter what party he belongs...
...year incumbent, Foglietta represents one of the poorest districts in America. He is also the only white Congressman for a mostly black constituency and this year was one of only 101 Representatives to vote against the G.O.P.-sponsored welfare-reform bill...