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- From: idfriedm@hertz.uwaterloo.ca (id friedman)
- Subject: American underclass
- Message-ID: <BtK4Jy.2uz@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Sender: news@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:50:21 GMT
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- I have always wondered why the U.S, the richest country in the world in
- terms of per capita GNP, is having such a hard time solving the problems
- of homelessness, urban poverty, drugs, etc..
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- Of course, Democrats and Republicans yell and scream at each other for
- ignoring and neglecting these problems. I am wondering whether people
- know of *** good *** books addressing this problem.
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- I am ** not ** interested in unsubstantiated accusations.
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- I am interested in opinions on the following subjects:
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- (1) Is rent control is places like N.Y a large part of the problem in terms
- of distorting the housing market?
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- (2) Do you think that either Clinton or Bush are *** serious *** about
- addressing these problems?
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- (3) Is there any way that these problems can be ameliorated without a large
- tax increase?
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- Ishay
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