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...while experts say they understand the need to provide housing to the city's poorest residents, they say they do not want to limit the land bank's options...
Sometimes dumping on the poor is a consequence of self-exploitation. In their search for new disposal sites, waste managers have discovered fertile ground on American Indian reservations, which are considered sovereign entities not subject to local or state environmental restrictions and whose residents are perhaps the poorest of the nation's poor...
...instance, this week NATION tells you about "Dumping on the Poor," how many of the country's poorest citizens are relegated to living in environmental wastelands. And Jack is quickly defining the focus of his section. "Our job is to address the two biggest issues facing the U.S.: how America redefines its role in the post-cold war world, and how we will deal with a host of unsolved domestic problems, from the growth of the urban underclass to rebuilding the infrastructure," says White...
Prices were not the only issue. Critics of longtime President Kenneth Kaunda accused his government of corruption and poor management, which, combined with the 1974 collapse of copper prices, has made Zambia one of the world's poorest countries. Kaunda, 66, blamed the "power hungry" for the unrest, but he did seek to appease the mobs by scheduling a promised referendum on whether to restore multiparty democracy, abolished in 1972, on Oct. 17. Still, he said, there would be no relenting on the austerity measures, which are intended to impress the International Monetary Fund...
...trim the state payroll and bring spending further under control. Almost 1,500 government jobs (of a total 71,000) have been eliminated in all areas except corrections and human services. Floriocrats are also cutting back such perks as state cars and credit cards. Improvement in New Jersey's poorest school districts will take longer to accomplish, but Florio is considering such concrete standards as postgraduate employment and college acceptance rates to supplement test scores as indicators of the system's effectiveness...