Word: poorest
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...that long after I'm gone, my successors won't retreat." As for Kelly's burning-village imagery, Giuliani and Bratton dismiss such talk as sour grapes, pointing to the benefits of reduced crime being enjoyed by those hardest hit by it: Latinos and African Americans in the poorest parts of New York City. "The crime reduction has been across the board, in every neighborhood," says Bratton. That means four fewer people killed on the wealthy Upper East Side, but 51 fewer killed in war-torn East New York. The people who live there have noticed the change. "It used...
...relevant to the grand jury's investigation, and by so doing reduced his charges to one misdemeanor conviction of withholding information. "HUD has been a hotbed of scandal for some two decades," notes TIME's Anne Blackman. "A lot of federal dollars were being spent in some of the poorest areas, and some rather unsavory characters were able to profit by HUD. However, through vouchers and agency downsizing, Secretary Henry Cisneros has been quite successful at cleaning things up." Watt's sentencing hearing is scheduled for March...
...rooms has dropped from 18% to 8%, while those seeing regular doctors has jumped from 18% to 36%. Says John Murphy, executive director of the Flinn Foundation, a Phoenix think tank that studies health care: "If what you're trying to do is provide high-quality care to the poorest of the poor for a low price to the state, this system is a success...
...piece becomes particularly problematic when he conflates several different issues pertaining to social policy and African-American development. He begins by arguing that the problem is: "The federal government and the saturation of politically correct terms in our culture have stopped the poorest of the African-American community from growing because dependent blacks think they need a helping hand in every form of life to help overcome...oppression...
...does point out a number of significant flaws in the department's financial aid program. Currently, the government department provides full financial aid to all under-represented minorities regardless of need. In fact, these aid packages are so generous that even wealthy minority admittees receive more aid than the poorest whites or Asians...