Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Association to set up a national clearinghouse that will advise local schools and community agencies on specific ways to catch dropouts before they trip (work-study programs, improved counseling, intensive reading courses), gather exact statistics on the drop-out rate (now reportedly 40% nationally and 60-80% in blighted urban areas), and help unemployed kids find jobs...
...Urban Renewal. The House bill would spend $2 billion, as against the Senate's $2.5 billion, during the next four years to help cities rebuild blighted areas. Cities would buy up decaying sections, raze the buildings and attract private buyers for the land by selling it at a loss. In turn, the Federal Government would reimburse the cities for their losses. Cities with populations under 50,000 would get back three-fourths of their costs; bigger cities would get back two-thirds...
...Income Housing. The Public Housing Administration would subsidize construction of 100,000 apartments for families with incomes below $4,000, giving priority to persons displaced by the urban renewal program. The units would actually be built by local housing authorities. PHA would either finance the project directly or guarantee a loan. Once the apartments were up, PHA would pay the difference between operating cost and rental income...
Goldwater takes stands for states' (and cities') rights, for free enterprise, and for personal liberty. In a nation accustomed to deficit spending and $80 billion budgets, he warns that debt means doom, urges that the Federal Government leave to local authorities such programs as public housing and urban renewal. When the occasion demands, Barry Goldwater can and does quote from such conservative philosophers as Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk-but he sounds uneasy when he does so, and he is often a disappointment to groups who come expecting to hear a conservative egghead. Goldwater himself is the first...
...first Forum will be on racial problems--"Emancipation Proclamation 1961"--with Arthur E. sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law at the University; V. O. Key, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government; Walter Carrington, of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; and Whitney Young, National Director of the Urban League. It will be in Loeb Experimental Theatre Wednesday...