Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report followed a Federal Election Commission announcement yesterday that Hart had not received enough support to continue to be eligible for federal campaign funds...
LAST week marked the 20th anniversary of the Kerner Commission's report on race relations...
Twenty years later we may not have fallen so far, but a report prepared for the anniversary of the Kerner study reveals that we still have miles to go. Now the key issue is no longer legal barriers to advancement, but economic setbacks...
...report draws the reader to the inner cities, where there exists "a persistent, large and growing underclass." In words which closely echo Kerner's assessment of Black ghettos in the 1960's, the inner cities are described as places of "crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare and resentment against society in general and white society in particular...
Since the Kerner report, only the words have changed. No longer do we hear of ghettos, but now the inner city; no longer segregation laws, but crack, dirty syringes, government inaction, societal blindness...