America, particularly if we emphasize this new notion of New Federalism and I think we have to be prepared for that. All of the testimony that we have heard indicates that we continue down this road, our cities are going to continue to deteriorate. We will awaken one morning and our cities will be, the old, young, rich, and poor. Middle-class families will have moved out away from the central city. Those people moving back are the people with wealth, so where-the people who are in poverty have no place to go. When the middle-class move away, the infrastructure drops, because there is no one there to support it, no tax base for the school system, and so forth. So we are talking about a very significant difficulty. We talked with police and indicated that, given the budget crunches, that those programs we ostensibly fought for to improve the community relations of the police and the minority community, those are the first programs that go out the window which brings us to greater tension between the police and community. Housing is plummeting, unemployment is skyrocketing. These are recipes for disaster. This is one tiny effort in the whole range of things that can be done. To the extent this little committee can focus attention on the ineptness and inadequacy of our Federal approach to solve these problems, we will have done something. If we in some way triggered the imagination of people to become actively involved in challenging the absurdity of the direction of these policies, then our committee will have served one of its purposes. If we have been part of the educative process for people to begin to look very seriously at the processes that are deteriorating our cities, whether it is Houston, Philadelphia, Oakland, Calif., Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., or wherever, then I think that we have served our purpose. We would like to be in communication with you. To the extent we can be of mutual assistance to each other, you have my commitment. Reverend MCGEE. Thank you very much. The CHAIRMAN. If there are no further matters to come before the full committee, the full committee stands in adjournment subject to the call of the Chair. [Whereupon, at 5:05 p.m., the committee was adjourned, subject to the call of the Chair.] INDEX PHILADELPHIA Administrative (of President Reagan) policy of balancing the budget: Effects Administrative proposed cuts in urban housing, transit systems, and commu- Adult gang members African-American mothers. Page 6 4 49 129 186 48, 158 40 181 101 101 95-96 3 17 56 128, 129 126 Carter, Jimmy (former President) "Cautious Optimism". Center city development. Central North Philadelphia Resource Center CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act): And the private sector And women Worked for many Cutbacks and unemployment Questions of success. Stigma........ Tax credits for training. Chambers, Tracy. Chester (Pa).... Child Nutrition Act Proposed cuts 55 40 159, 161 146-47 15 101, 138, 130, 131, 146, 159, 160 159-60 161 128 102-3 55,99 164 178 Child Welfare Code.. 100 Coalition of Housing Organizations of Philadelphia [CHOP]. 23 Cohen, Mark (State representative) 14 Coleman, Gregory, statement of... 32-34 Collective youth behavior: Relationship to changing socioeconomic conditions.. 48-49 Recommendation for the creation of a congressional task force. Community Development Agency.... Community development block grant [CDBG]. Doubt that women will benefit. 49-50 50 33 23, 29, 30, 33, 108, 126, 177 161 Community development block grant [CDBG]—-Continued Opposed by parents union Community Development Corporation. Condominium conversion Congressional Black Caucus Counterbudget... Congressional Budget Office. Congressional hearings: Reasons for holding in Philadelphia Correlation to decrease in spending, and the private sector. Double T chromosome theory Women in higher education. Education and Labor Committee: Changes in student loan program. Education for Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142). Educational opportunity grants. Elementary and Secondary Education Act [ESEA]. Page 179 31, 33, 44 37, 39 187 35 45 181 12 13 13 12 13 12 14-15 12 7 100 7 8 12-13 7 13 103 101 98, 100 100 99 96 96 59 185 19 130 9, 20 9 104 23 184-5 181 185 180 181-2 185 177 184 185 182 185-6 180 164 181 182 9, 15 164 127 128-9 109, 127, 128 16 44 Forced $11.5 billion Education and Labor Committee cost. Guaranteed student loan program: Proposals (for changing) could cause great- 177 Cost of shells. Request for certification of individuals for police work. Role in recruitment of minority policemen.... Technical assistance to police/community relations. Hamid, Ishmail, statement of. Hamilton, Moses..... Hispanic population in Philadelphia.. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act...... Housing: Abandoned and vacant houses...... Absentee ownership of multiple units. Conference of July, 1980. Effects of Reagan budget cuts. 59 103 103 24-25 102 14 27 45 27-28 42-43 27 28-29 Housing and Urban Development [HUD]. Hughes, William J. (U.S. Representative) Bill (H.R. 3359). Los Angeles (Calif.): Gang violence in Referendum on tax increase Magnet schools........ Middle class flight to suburbs, impact on education system Military spending. Military spending in the 1990's. Minority youths: Employability problem Multinationals and the economy Murphy, Joe (homicide chief).. Office of Housing and Community Development... Page 102 20 164, 186 186 15-17 162 48 162 14 9 26 56 181 32 35, 41 49, 55, 58 49, 58 39 164 9 164 164 165 165 178 178 165 186 32 35 Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention [OJJDP]. Parents Union Grant from Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Local government: Required to raise local tax rates and cut services....... Civil service hiring of. Need for affirmative action to fight crime. Composition of eligibility (for supervisor rank) list. Tests not job-related.. Abuse in North Central Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Urban League: "The State of Life in Philadelphia". |