Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jesse Jackson and other black leaders in communities nationwide will affirm. But no one else has the president's power to draw public attention to an issue. Local concerns develop national importance when the president takes a serious interest in them, and Clinton's interest in ending urban violence appears serious indeed...
...Clinton Administration's point man on the homeless issue is Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who talked recently with correspondent Ann Blackman. Some excerpts...
...raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising a solution: "A backlash is growing. What I believed was an almost universal compassion has today given way to an impatience, a frustration, an anger toward the homeless...
...then I grew up. When I made it out of the suburbs and into an urban Jesuit high school, I learned about things like poverty, civil rights and social responsibility. The world was more complicated than the stratified one the conservatives had invented for me. Abigail Adams has been dead for nearly three hundred years now; Mother Teresa does more for this world in one hour than Nixon, Reagan and Bush did all their lives...
...three years ago, California was home to 2.85 million Asian Americans, about 38% of the nation's total. Between the 1970 and 1990 censuses, their numbers in Los Angeles County alone increased fivefold. Paul Ong, a UCLA urban-planning professor and author, predicts that by the year 2020, Asians in California will number 8.5 million, accounting for about 20% of the state's population...