Personal charity and the homeless crisis of 1980s America
An opinion piece reflects on how charity to the homeless intersects with policy. It cites the McKinney Act, housing budget cuts since 1980, and 3 million homeless nationwide. It profiles Rev. Maurice Chase in Los Angeles and debates whether personal gifts help or harm, weighing economics and ethics.
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Congress
Ronald Reagan
Maurice Chase
Los Angeles
Father Chase
Strite
Chrysalis
Chase
Las Familias del Pueblo
Princeton University
Alan Blinder
First black administrator named at Bishop Grimes High School
Conventual Franciscan Fr John Douglas McMillan named associate principal at Bishop Grimes High School in East Syracuse. The Bronx native becomes the first black education administrator in the diocese's 102-year history, returning from English teacher since 1981 to oversee discipline transport attendance and stage a renewed grammar and school paper. He is one of two black religious in the diocese and the only black of 20 seli- McMILLAN gious brothers. The other is Sister Clementine Lynch of Our Lady of Salana Cehanl in Richmond text.
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John Douglas McMillan
Bishop Grimes High School
Syracuse
Bronx
McMillan
New Post
Ence Stage
Seli- McMillan Gious
Habitat for Humanity to build three homes in Syracuse East Side
Habitat for Humanity moves toward completion of its first new Syracuse project on Ashworth Place near East Genesee Street. The three four bedroom homes will sit on donated lots bought by University Hill Corp and University United Methodist Church for 9000, with land then donated to Habitat. Syracuse Habitat, formed in 1984, previously built three Midland Avenue homes sold at cost to families earning under 15000.
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David Lassman
Stall
Ashworth Place
Habitat For Humanity
Sue Bower
Chenene Krineoeall
Cambodia
Syracuse
Ecumenical
University Avenue
Pine Street
Habitat
Americus
University Hill
University Hill Corp
University United Methodist Church
East Genesee Street
Ashworth
Habitat Fo Humanity
Midland Avenue
Con artists prey on faithful in church scams across America
Con game operators fleeced believers draining about 500 million dollars over five years. John Baldwin and others exposed schemes including a religious radio license scam, Sonrise Ministries, and Whitesburg Baptist Church frauds. One investor-minister link yielded 18 million dollars seized. restitution was limited.
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John Baldwin
Washington
Utah
Securities
America
North American Securities Administrators Association
Council of Better Business Bureaus
Thomas Root
Atlantic
Root
Sunrise Manage
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Richard ‘Nixon
National Coalition For the Homeless
United States
NEW York Times
Félates
Blinder
WMI Siuul
Richmond
W.A. Criswell
Dallas
Southern Baptist Convention
Ed Briggs
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Gordon James
Criswell
Reuben Archer Torrey
Caswell
First Baptist Church
Southern Baptist
Torrey
James
Broadman Press
Nashville
Amity Foundation
Saetes
New York
Franklin Woo
National Council of Churches’ China
Foundation
Reform Movement
Jack Wertheimer
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Jess
Disciples of Christ
Indianapolis
the Christian Church
Adel
Oas
Jonathan Knight
Ted Thuma
By Mike McManus
Bers
God
North Carolina
Sonrise
Holy Spirit FM
Steven Streit
Whitesburg Baptist Church
Alabama
Peice
Pelioi UN
Robert Rash
Alabama Securities Commission
South Pacific
Streil
Ford Oil and Development Inc
Israel
Moses
Asher
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