Word: urbanity
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...from simply extending the current law that freezes discretionary spending at current levels. Clinton was less specific about the rest of the cuts. This week Vice President Al Gore is expected to detail plans to save $24 billion by shrinking three Cabinet-level departments -- Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development -- and all but eliminating the General Services Administration. With the Republicans in control of Congress, Clinton's tax cuts are likely to go nowhere. Under the Contract with America, the G.O.P. wants to extend the $500- per-child tax credit to families with incomes...
Just days after pledging to shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the ongoing tax-cut frenzy, President Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses...
...moving to the right on welfare, the Republicans have also forced the White House and congressional Democrats to shift in the same direction. And the movement picked up speed last week. The White House is considering abolition of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Great Society creation that is devoted mostly to problems of the inner cities. Chief of staff Leon Panetta is also promising that the Clinton welfare-reform plan will be revised so that the cost of job training and child care would be covered by cuts in other programs for the poor. "Any welfare proposal...
...research shows minorities living in poor urban areas are more likely to die from asthma than any other group, largely contributing to the rise in asthma deaths nationwide since the late 1970s. But the deaths cannot be blamed on more carbon monoxide and ozone clogging the air, since air standards have improved in some American cities. Instead indoor allergens and difficulty in getting health care may have more to do with why asthma is more deadly for the urban poor...
...fuel. That has reduced the soot pouring out of the largest smokestacks but has hardly begun to clear the air. Reason: the main sources of pollution are millions of small factory boilers and household stoves burning unwashed coal. While the government hopes that as much as half the urban population can eventually be supplied with clean natural gas for cooking, rising prices and short supplies may undercut that effort...