Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and former chief economic adviser to President Carter. Schultze warned that under the patriotic banner of competitiveness, overzealous legislators may fail to differentiate between healthy steps to boost efficiency (example: increased worker training) and potentially harmful measures to shelter industries (example: quotas on foreign products). The most effective way for the U.S. to become more competitive abroad, Schultze pointed out, is to concentrate on making its goods less expensive by bringing the dollar into line...
...this point we can provide beds for twelve people," said Steve Gary, director of the new shelter. "In two or three weeks, though, once people hear about us, we'll be booked and we'll have to turn people away...
Whitty, who directs Shelter Inc., an emergency overnight shelter that provides beds for 20 people, has to turn away people each night. He says community organizations like his own cannot accommodate all of Cambridge's homeless population, which is growing...
Whitty believes that a city--funded daytime shelter would solve several sheltering difficulties. "A drop-in shelter would fill an unmet need," he said. "It would provide a broad range of emergency, feeding, and support programs...
Supporters of a city-funded shelter, however, feel the Cambridge City Council does not take the homeless problem seriously enough...