The Nation - News from April 21, 1985

The nation’s black mayors, blaming the “severe crisis” in U.S. cities on federal cutbacks, adopted resolutions urging Congress to increase funding for jobs, housing and transportation. “We have grown in number and grown in unity,” said Marion S. Barry Jr., president of the National Conference of Black Mayors and mayor of the District of Columbia. The mayors, meeting in Hartford, Conn., called for a decrease in the $200-billion federal budget deficit but not at the expense of domestic programs.