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The seeds of urban revival

MITCHELL SVIRIDOFF

NO MATTER WHAT the measurement—unemployment, welfare rates, crime, infant mortality, out-of-wedlock births, school achievement, homelessness, substance abuse—the condition of urban America, at least in the older cities, has worsened significantly in recent years. 

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