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Where politicians stand on the issue usually depends on where they sit. Congressmen generally dislike the block grant approach because, as Rutgers University Urban Policy Research Director George Sternlieb says, "they like to appear as Santa Claus, handing out goodies to their constituencies." For the very same reason, state officials are enthusiastic about no-strings money. Says Georgia Governor George Busbee: "The categorical grant system wastes too much money on unproductive bureaucrats." He calculates that localities now employ more than 900 lobbyists to fight in Washington for education funds alone. Says Alabama Governor Fob James: "If the President gives...
Amid the catcalls, there were also some cheers for a report willing to break fresh ground in such blunt fashion. Said George Sternlieb, director of urban policy research at Rutgers University: "The proposal says that cities have ended up as sandboxes for the poor. It faces up to the reality of migration of jobs and people and says Government should help those who can't make the shift on their own. A new land of opportunity has opened up, and we should give poor people a chance to share in this opportunity." The report is only a draft...
...seem to captivate more and more middle-class tenants. To them, rents are an easily identifiable and ever increasing part of their budgets, even though the rent component of the Consumer Price Index since 1967 increased only 71%, while the CPI as a whole went up 107%. Says George Sternlieb, director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University: "Such people know the evils of rent controls. But in view of their immediate concerns, many have adopted an attitude of 'I'll worry about posterity tomorrow...
...cities, the cycle is as depressingly vicious as it is familiar. Businesses decamp; the young, the middle class, the skilled, the well educated flee; the tax base erodes. So taxes go even higher, driving out still more productive, wage-earning families. Says George Sternlieb of Rutgers University's Center for Urban Policy Research: "We have no experience in shaping decline. No graceful way of shrinking a city. We don't know what to do with people left in a city for whom there are no job opportunities." Although the solutions are elusive, it is clear that the cities...
More immediately, higher taxes will drive middle-class people and businesses out of New York. "This migration has been going on a long time," says George Sternlieb, an urbanologist at Rutgers University. "Now the flow is a stampede." In the first nine months of 1975, the city has lost 193,000 jobs...