Word: yorkerâ
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...York City Mayor John Lindsay faces perhaps the most staggering crisis of all. His welfare population?1,100,000, every seventh New Yorker???could constitute the seventh largest municipality in the U.S. The aid bill for that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase in a decade. As is the case with so much of the welfare nightmare, Lindsay's problems mix the pathetic and the bizarre; to his horror welfare officials recently lodged an indigent family at the Waldorf Astoria for a day, claiming absurdly that there was no room elsewhere. Many others...
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