Percentage of Chicago-area adults owning cellular phones, according to a Media Audit news release: 28.
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“Domestic violence explains much about the difficulty of making the journey from welfare to work,” Jody Raphael, of the Taylor Institute on North Wolcott, writes in Poverty & Race (January/February): “The Chicago Commons West Humboldt Employment Training Center (ETC)…has discovered a strong connection between domestic violence and long-term welfare receipt….Participants do not come to basic skills classes regularly, because their attendance provokes violent behavior against them. Their decision to improve their skills and seek employment threatens their abusers, who prefer them to stay dependent. Coming to the ETC program is itself an act of resistance which most often exacerbates the violence. Staff see women with visible bruises, black eyes and cigarette burns, inflicted by abusers in the hope that their victims will be too embarrassed to come to school….Training programs, however well-intentioned, that do not address this issue are doomed to failure. Welfare reform schemes, including those providing public service jobs, cannot succeed if welfare recipients remain in the grip of their abusers.”
Another growing business. Pounds of food distributed by the Greater Chicago Food Depository in 1985: 14 million. In 1994: 25 million.
“Racism, which would seem to have a certain unique status as an evil in American history, is made equal to sexism as a thought crime,” complains Richard Bernstein in his new book Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future, “even though men in the West have typically ‘oppressed’ women, in part, by putting them on pedestals, while they have oppressed blacks by hanging them from ropes.”
