Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan's program provides big city mayors with an even more depressing alternative. Sunday night's debate showed him unable to understand the problems that confront our cities. When Lee May of The Los Angeles Times asked him what he would do to fight the "emotional and physical" crises of American cities, Reagan responded with one of his fill-in-the-blank answers. "Get the federal government off the back of (blank)." (Choose one:a) business, b) local governments, c) the American family, d) the oil companies, e) all of the above.) Reagan chose letter...
...Reagan plan would turn "back tax sources to the state and local governments as well as the responsibility for these program." In other words, cities would pay all the welfare costs of their poorest citizens and cover medicaid, mass transit, educational and numerous other expenses as well. Somehow, this program is supposed to bring America's cities out of fiscal crisis...
...Philadelphia." Reagan failed to mention that while these cities are being taxed and then granted federal dollars, the federal government is also collecting revenues from affluent suburbs surrounding them and from relatively well-to-do regions like the Southwest. He overlooked the raison d'etre of a national urban program--to funnel tax revenues from affluent, non-urban communities into poverty-stricken inner cities...
...Sunday's debate, Reagan also outlined his plans for an "urban homesteading" act, a plan to make our inner cities the new "American West." Yet like most of Reagan's proposals, this romantic notion is marked by simplicity rather than substance. The urban homesteading program would let inner city residents buy government-owned, vacant and delapidated buildings for one dollar provided that they rehabilitate them and then move in. This sounds nice but it doesn't work. Put simply, the impoverished homesteaders cannot afford to pay the expensive rehabilitation costs of vacant buildings. Even homesteading programs coupled with generous mortgage...
...Anderson program calls for combining strong tax incentives in "enterprise zones" with a more traditional national urban policy that focuses on initial public sector investments; the plan aims to convince businessmen of the advantages of locating in city centers. Anderson has discussed establishing urban reinvestment trust funds with $8 billion in federal funds circulating into cities. This sounds very much like the Carter program proposed three years ago. But two special challenges confront John Anderson. The first is to bring his independent candidacy to the White House. The second would be to convince Congress of the need for a strong...