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Article: The Buffalo News, N.Y., Douglas Turner column: Plenty can be done to alleviate poverty.
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- September 10, 2007
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Byline: Douglas Turner
Sep. 10--In and around Buffalo, everybody who had influence took a bite of the goose. And it left the most vulnerable in the core community with not much more than brittle bones.
The Census Bureau says Buffalo now has the second-highest proportion of poor among the nation's large cities. Here's what those with power got:
--Public employee unions, and lately the bargaining agents for the hospital workers, imposed prodigious taxes on the remaining private- sector employers -- discouraging expansion and new investment and jobs.
--Suburban towns coaxed builders to quit the city and fringe suburbs, creating sprawl in ...
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