Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
Public housing has brought the poor more eviction notices than new apartments, and slum dwellers scornfully refer to urban renewal as "urban removal." While Washington lavishes $18 billion a year on a galaxy of welfare programs-to which state and local governments and private philanthropies add another $15 billion-only the crumbs reach the bottom of the heap...
...applied to Talk Stories. It is best to read them separately, savoring their gem-like quality. Read all at once, they smother the reader in "we's" and miles of details. But since they appeared over the last five years, the individual stories paint entertaining and vivid sketches of urban life in the '60's with Miss Ross setting the mood...
Ronald L. Trosper's interview with Wilson on the problems of "The President and the Bureaucracy" is necessary reading if only because of the recent criticism of the anti-poverty program. Wilson doubts that the government can effectively man organizations to combat discrimination and poverty or solve problems of urban affairs...
...Although the 1960's are years of prosperity," Galbraith said in his endorsement, "America is faced with an urban crisis, the major national issue of the decade." Growing populations and scarce funds for development have multiplied problems in the management of every American city...