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Quality Of Life Not Good For City Kids

By Newsradio 88 Staff

Mayor Giuliani may be touting his quality of life crackdown.

But the quality of life of a lot of the city's kids can't be solved by ticketing bums for urinating in the street.

A children's advocacy group paints a bleak portrait of life for many of New York's kids, citing increased poverty, homelessness and a jump in births to teen-age mothers.

The group says things have deteriorated in the first five years of the decade, and government budget cuts make the outlook even worse.