Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though in a rather subdued fashion, that the reductions should not fall too heavily on job-creation programs. He said that the Administration will have "to prove that putting people on unemployment and welfare is less inflationary than giving them jobs." Patricia Harris, the outspoken Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, sent a sharply worded memo to OMB saying that she could not live with the proposed cuts in her department. The White House was especially irked when the memo was leaked to the press...
...cyclical assistance, which provides money for jobs when unemployment in an area reaches 4.5%. The White House will probably ask for a renewal of the program, but with the unemployment trigger pushed up higher, to 6% or 6.5%. The Administration expects to continue to support other parts of its urban program, including the proposed development bank to finance job-intensive projects in cities. But fewer funds will be provided...
...much more immediate financial threat than recession, and they are already beginning to register protests. A group of black leaders sent an urgent message of "concern" to the White House warning that the new budget "may deeply and disproportionately affect the poor and minorities in the most hard-pressed urban and rural areas...
...memo, which was quickly leaked, to the budget cut ters at the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris, 54. the Illinois-born Pullman-car waiter's daughter who is the only black in the Cabinet, heatedly complained that the ceiling proposed by the OMB on her department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would...
...delegation, which includes Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy and City Manager James L. Sullivan, also plans to travel to Washington, D.C. to present a list of questions about the long-range impact of the Red Line extension to Urban Mass Transit Authority (UMTA) officials...