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Princeton University Press
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"Newburgh, NY-a city of about 30,000 residents, located roughly sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley-is a quintessential example of a small, under-resourced, majority-minority, post-industrial city that has struggled to transition into the service, technology, and knowledge-based economy. Like many other similarly sized cities throughout the American northeast and midwest, white flight and decades of disinvestment left it...
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Background information about Newburgh, N. Y. explaining why a conflict has arisen over the public welfare program. Mentions three improvements in Newburgh --the enactment of a zoning code, the beginning of an urban renewal program, and an intensified plan for housing inspection. Shows how welfare funds in Newburgh are spent and explains how City Manager Mitchell has attacked the welfare program and has taken steps to restrict welfare eligibility and...