Indeed. many of those programs have indirectly served to multiply and intensify the problems of the cities. For example. Governmentbacked mortgage. housing. and highway construction measures have contributed to the deterioration of the core of central cities by speeding the exodus of middle income families to the suburbs. And there is strong evidence to suggest that welfare programs together with their achievements have served to attract povertystricken migrants to the city slums and even to the breakup of. slum families. Mr. President. the depth of the problems of our big cities and the failures of existing programs to solve them was :dramatized by the hearings conducted last fall by the Senate Subcommittee on Government Reorganization.
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