Word: demand
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...when advocates were pressed for a solution, they answered the congressional committees and task forces and think tanks with a sharp demand: "Housing, housing and housing." And in a way, they were right. It was no secret that a main cause of homelessness in the '80s was the poor being squeezed out of the housing market. In the 1970s and '80s, the average rent grew twice as fast as the average income. Manufacturing jobs disappeared: of the 12 million new jobs created since 1979, more than half pay less than $7,000 a year, and many provide no health insurance...
...month average rent on a two-bedroom unit in decent condition. Under the Reagan Administration, the Federal Government cut housing assistance 75%, and much of what was left was wasted. The Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped subsidizing new housing and handed out rent vouchers instead. This increased demand without increasing the supply and set off a scramble for the cheap units that remained...
...latest round of belt tightening, however, has an odd new twist: network news, by some measures, is booming. Because news shows are cheaper to produce than entertainment fare, they are in demand at the networks. Four hours of news programming is now seen weekly in prime time. NBC will add another hour in January -- a half-hour version of Real Life with Jane Pauley and the investigative series Expose -- as well as an afternoon show hosted by Faith Daniels. CBS's America Tonight has joined the late-night schedule (though it will leave the air, at least temporarily, in late...
This Alice in Wonderland economy extends to theindividual level as well. Why should Sergei workharder if he isn't rewarded for additional output?And even if he were rewarded by merit, he can'tbuy anything worth having with his money, sinceMoscow bureaucrats, not he and other Soviets, setthe demand for goods. And even if he could somehowget what he wants, it would be of only the lowestquality, since quantity and not quality isrewarded by Gosplan. Soviet televisions, forexample, are prone to explode...
Epps' ignorance of the Lampoon's butchery cannot be inadvertant. We demand a full investigation into the death of the tree and disciplinary action against those responsible. If Epps' self-described "vigorous efforts" cannot expose the obvious perpetrators, an independent investigator should be appointed immediately. And if the investigator concludes the Lampoon is responsible, the entire executive board of the Lampoon should resign in disgrace...