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...made people think about the way they stereotype ethnic minorities, and that was the point." Raymzter's message is all the more pointed because it comes at a time when the Netherlands' traditional tolerance is being tested by frustration over the sharp rise in petty crime attributed to young, urban Moroccans and a general anti-Muslim feeling since Sept. 11. The result is the growing stigmatizing of a whole generation of Dutch-born Moroccans. So K__ Marokkanen has become something of an anthem among all sorts of foreigners living in the Netherlands. "So many people come...
...good statistics shows that this population has grown significantly and that its fastest-growing segment is composed of families. Homeless parents and their kids made up roughly 15% of the case load in 1999--or, if you count every head, about 35% of all homeless people, according to the Urban Institute, a liberal D.C. think tank. The TIME survey suggests that population has since increased--registering year-over-year jumps in either 2001 or 2002 (see graphic for individual cities). These families mainly consist of single women with kids, whose greater housing needs, compared with those of single people, make...
...that poor people who wouldn't otherwise be homeless are attracted to shelters as a way of quickly tapping into government assistance. "It didn't take long for people to figure out that this was a way to scam the system," admits Andrew Cuomo, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Bill Clinton. Given all this failure and disgust, Republicans could deal with this problem however they wanted...
...visiting fellows are: Dimitrus Avranopoulos, former mayor of Athens; Jeff Blodgett, campaign manager for former Senator Paul Wellstone; Glen Browder, a former member of Congress from Alabama; Andrew Cuomo, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; Ron Kirk, former mayor of Dallas; Constance Morella, a former member of Congress from Maryland; Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans; Zvi Rafiah, former Israeli diplomat and Swift...
...India: Urban Cowboys...