Word: snowbelt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ridiculous!" scoffed Jake Godbold, mayor of Jacksonville. "Idiocy!" exclaimed Robert McCabe, president of Detroit Renaissance, the city's urban revitalization organization. For once, the contentious spokesmen for the Snowbelt and the Sunbelt were agreed on something: they were outraged by the draft of a presidential report on urban policy that was leaked to the press last week in an obvious attempt to discredit it. Probably the most controversial of a package of proposals to be presented to President Carter on Jan. 16 by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, the report calls...
...Snowbelt city can best maintain its viability, says the report, by specializing in service functions, which are increasingly dependent on better-educated employees. Thus a traditional means of upward mobility for the poor has been blocked. The report states that it is self-defeating to try to reindustrialize the central cities; too much federal aid is given in a vain effort to sustain them, and not enough is given directly to the poor. According to the report, the poor should be helped by a guaranteed minimum income, by job training and by assistance in migrating to areas where work...
...England has shown that the Snowbelt states can cast off their old industrial base. The skilled labor force has quickly adapted to different industries; and local and state governments realized that cooperation with business rather than confrontation was the answer to economic ills. Instead of clinging to dying and unprofitable businesses, New England has ensured its economic future by seizing industry's new technologies...
...drive of most stores, allowing K mart stores to keep inventories at a minimum, reducing a major source of debt. The distribution network also allows local managers to order merchandise independently. As a result, K mart's Sunbelt stores never get stuck with too many Snowbelt specialties, like ice hockey sticks...