[Some found Bush's words reassuring. Others worried that they would not resonate far into the future.] New Orleans is sort of like South Central [Los Angeles], ... People ignore the problem of poverty, then every once in a while something catastrophic happens. We talk about it, then we forget about it. |
But the major mistake is to take the census report as a one-year phenomenon. This is the fourth straight year of increasing poverty, following a seven-year decline, from 1993 to 2000. Shouldn't wise journalists be asking why? |
If anything, the numbers out of the Census Bureau underestimate the problem of poverty in America, |
One can always hope, but I worry this will be a repeat of that experience. After the 1960 riots, there was a lot of talk and a lot of commissions, but there was no real sustained action. |
We?re pleased with the vitality we're seeing in the UK market. Our company accounted for close to a quarter of all industrial leasing across the country in 2005, and the size and volume of new transactions has remained strong for us through the first part of the New Year. |