Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan's 12 sections serve primarily to protect elderly, physically handicapped and "income eligible" tenants--those with incomes 90 percent or less than the median-income guidelines set up by the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...predatory world of American cities, runaways are near the bottom of the food chain. Some are ruthlessly abused; others become urban survivalists, displaying remarkable stamina and cunning. The younger children face the longest odds. "You have people preying on these kids from the minute they arrive at the Greyhound station and the train stations," says Barry Fisher, program director at San Francisco's Huckleberry House. "I remember one 12- year-old girl who was quickly scooped up by a pimp." AIDS is especially devastating: of 12 youths from a Hollywood squat tested last year, half were HIV-positive...
According to a statement released by the Heritage Foundation yesterday, speakers will include conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, former Bush drug czar William J. Bennett and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp...
...intervention of school administrators and coaches as well as those of parents and siblings. At the start of the film we sense the same excitement and anticipation that both boys do--William and Arthur appear to be incredibly talented, and both are sought out by scouts who cruise urban Chicago's asphalt looking for skilled young players...
...other hand, a study by the Urban Institute of Washington, D.C., whose numbers both sides acknowledge, reports that the share of taxes paid by illegal immigrants is greater than the share of the population they represent. In other words, they pay more into the system than the take out. The problem is, though, that what they take out in the form of social services and public education comes mostly from state government and what they pay in taxes goes mostly to the federal government. It is this misallocation of resources, which has caused the drain on the California economy...