The Worst City Government
The Worst City Government So far, the contest for the Government remains a close race between New York City and Washington. Here are three reports from the front: New York City has a law...
...is more like a city-state than a city alone, its payroll level is 43 percent above the average for all state and local governments combined...
...Here are three reports from the front: New York City has a law requiring landlords to install window guards in apartments that house children, and 15 inspectors in the health department's Window Guard Unit ostensibly enforce it...
...It pays its teachers at the second highest level in the nation, close to a $35,000 a year average...
...attorney indicted eight employees of the Queens Department of Motor Vehicles in a bribery scheme...
...The and national average for big cities is 224...
...In one week they reported working 142 hours when, in fact, they worked 99 hours-and that was when the auditors were accompanying them on their rounds...
...spends $5,800 a year per student on public education, nearly 50 percent above the national rate...
...Yet its dropout rate (48 percent) is the worst in the nation and its SAT scores are third from the bottom...
...The city government employs 633 city workers for every 10,000 people...
...Katherine Boo -Warren Brookes "Washington, D.C...
...A month after being informed of the problem, Medicaid Information continues to pass out wrong numbers...
...drug were an acceptable from of payment...
...Undercover cops paid as much as $1,600 for a driver's license...
...In February the U.S...
...Washington's streets are among the worst-maintained in the nation...
...NW Washingon D.C...
...James Ledbetter Mayor Marion Barry claims the District of Columbia's program to combat infant mortality is "the most comprehensive on planet earth ?' In fact, the District's infant mortality rate is the worst of all major cities in the country...
...The truly painful part is that the bribers were able to cut to the front of the lines...
...Even if you accept that D.C...
...Warren Brookes in The Washington Times Please send your nominations to: Worst City Government The Washington Monthly 1611 Connecticut Ave...
...Here's what happens when a pregnant woman on Medicaid calls the District's Medicaid Information Service to find an ob/gyn in the city's largely black Southeast who accepts Medicaid payments: Of the four numbers listed in District files, two are wrong, one is disconnected, one reaches a doctor who won't take Medicaid...
...Yet Washington spends 43 percent more than all cities spend on road and street maintenance, and double or triple what is being spent in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, or Boston...
...An audit in July found that these inspectors routinely falsify their time sheets...
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Vol. 21 • May 1989 • No. 4
