A homeless encampment is seen on July 11, 2023, in Phoenix. An estimated 89% of Americans will live in urban areas by 2050, adding to the potential for a growing slum economy across the United States.

No man in the United States has had more to do with public works than ROBERT MOSES. He has been head of the state park system of New York since 1924, park commissioner of New York City and ...

He told the Senate Rules Committee he considered the site of the project to have been “one of the worst slums in the United States, with the highest child mortality rate in the country.” ...