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...battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great unifying forces in the country between the black and white communities," and a man who has shown himself to be as skillful in the boardrooms of New York City as he was on the streets of his native Atlanta...
...simply have grown tired of hearing that their city was doing more than any other to house its poor. To many, the gap between Weaver's dream and everyday reality became intolerable. "We've been telling the Negro that there's a new day," notes Mitchell Sviridoff, who left New Haven's poverty program last year to become head of New York City's Human Resources Administration* "But there is no new day. He gets big, global promises, but nothing happens...
...Short. "New Haven is only relatively the best city," adds Edward Logue, another famous alumnus of Lee's administration, who resigned as Boston's renewal administrator last July to campaign for the mayoralty. For all New Haven's success in tapping the federal treasury, Logue, Sviridoff, and the men who run the city's programs fault the Government for being too stingy. "The cities," says Logue, "just aren't a priority item any place but at city hall. The Government is long on eloquence and short on funding." Dick Lee, a short...
There are, says Mike Sviridoff, four key factors in keeping the city cool. The first is the mayor and his ability to communicate. The second is the police department and its skill in dealing with minorities. The third is the quality of antipoverty programs. The fourth, quite simply, is luck. "New Haven," he says ruefully, "ran out of that...
...Mitchell Sviridoff, 48, head of New York City's Human Resources Administration, is attempting to bring all of the city's "human" programs together in one coherent plan. On the theory that welfare recipients will cheat no more than ordinary taxpayers, 300 welfare families have been allowed to receive money on their own signed certificates of need, without the extensive and costly bureaucratic checks normally required. When welfare recipients go to work, many cities dock their welfare payments by the amount of their earnings, thus destroying the incentive to work. New York plans to allow welfare recipients...