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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
© 2016 The New York Times
OBAMA IS PRESSED
TO SPEED EFFORT
TO ADD MIGRANTS
TARGET: 10,000 SYRIANS
Lag in Admissions Is at
Odds With Pledges
as World Watches
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
MONICA ALMEIDA/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Many of the nation’s poor have long flocked to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, drawn by a temperate climate and a cluster of missions and clinics.
On the Street: The Graying of America’s Homeless
An Aging Population Adds to the Challenges in Addressing a Crisis of Poverty
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
LOS ANGELES — They lean unsteadily on canes and walkers, or roll along the
sidewalks of Skid Row here in beat-up
wheelchairs, past soiled sleeping bags,
swaying tents and piles of garbage. They
wander the streets in tattered winter
coats, even in the warmth of spring. They
worry about the illnesses of age and how
they will approach death without the
help of children who long ago drifted
from their lives.
“It’s hard when you get older,” said Ken
Sylvas, 65, who has struggled with alcoholism and has not worked since he was
fired in 2001 from a meatpacking job. “I’m
in this wheelchair. I had a seizure and
was in a convalescent home for two
months. I just ride the bus back and forth
all night.”
The homeless in America are getting
old.
There were 306,000 people over 50 living on the streets in 2014, the most recent
data available, a 20 percent jump since
2007, according to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development. They
now make up 31 percent of the nation’s
homeless population.
The demographic shift is mirrored by a
noticeable but not as sharp increase
among homeless people ages 18 to 30,
many who entered the job market during
the Great Recession. They make up 24
percent of the homeless population. Like
the baby boomers, these young people
came of age during an economic downturn, confronting a tight housing and job
market. Many of them are former foster
Continued on Page A14
WASHINGTON — President
Obama invited a Syrian refugee to
this year’s State of the Union address, and he has spoken passionately about embracing refugees
as a core American value.
But nearly eight months into an
effort to resettle 10,000 Syrian
refugees in the United States, Mr.
Obama’s administration has admitted just over 2,500. And as his
administration prepares for a new
round of deportations of Central
Americans, including many women and children pleading for humanitarian protection, the president is facing intense criticism
from allies in Congress and advocacy groups about his administration’s treatment of migrants.
They say Mr. Obama’s lofty
message about the need to welcome those who come to the
United States seeking protection
has not been matched by action.
And they warn that the president,
who will host a summit meeting
on refugees in September during
the United Nations General Assembly session, risks undercutting his influence on the issue at a
time when American leadership is
needed to counteract a backlash
against refugees.
“Given that we’ve resettled so
few refugees and we’re employing
a deterrence strategy to refugees
on our Southern border, I wouldn’t
think we’d be giving advice to any
other nations about doing better,”
said Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration
Continued on Page A11
Vanilla Cones Soured Deal With Hong Kong Allies Is Tale of Trump’s Extremes Overtime Rule
May Get in Way
Fuel Turf War
Of Dream Jobs
In Manhattan
By FARAH STOCKMAN
and KEITH BRADSHER
By ANDY NEWMAN
and EMILY S. RUEB
Summer in New York City
means ice cream trucks: bell-jingling fleets of pleasure craft festooned with pictures of perfectly
swirled desserts and beaming
children, delivering frozen providence into grateful sweaty hands.
But behind those cheery facades simmer turf wars — longrunning, occasionally bloody
feuds between ice cream vendors
for control of the city’s prime selling spots.
And in a recent battle for a lucrative zone of tourist attractions
and sunny pedestrian plazas, a
place filled with people willing to
pay $4 for a plain vanilla cone, no
sprinkles, the king of ice cream
land has lost to an upstart.
Mister Softee says he has been
muscled out of Midtown.
New York Ice Cream, staffed by
drivers who used to cover Midtown Manhattan for Mister Softee, has had the area locked down
for at least a year, Mister Softee
said. The renegade is enforcing its
Continued on Page A1
Donald J. Trump, who has made
reversing America’s trade imbalance a pillar of his campaign, often
portrays himself as uniquely capable of wringing concessions out
of China through hard-nosed business tactics he has honed over the
years.
In fact, he says, he has a person-
al track record to back up his
boasts.
“I beat China all the time,” Mr.
Trump declared in a speech the
day he announced his candidacy.
“I own a big chunk of the Bank of
America building at 1290 Avenue
of the Americas that I got from
China in a war. Very valuable.”
Mr. Trump does have an investment in the building, an office
tower near Rockefeller Center.
But court documents and inter-
views with people involved in the
deal tell a very different story of
how he ended up with it.
It began when a group of Hong
Kong billionaires, including one
who has been called the Donald
Trump of China, helped rescue Mr.
Trump from the verge of bankruptcy by investing in one of his
properties in Manhattan.
For years, the carefully cultivated relationship between Mr.
Trump and his Hong Kong part-
ners proved lucrative for both
sides, and stands out as perhaps
the closest that Mr. Trump has
come to international diplomacy.
To strike the deal, Mr. Trump
had to attend elaborate dinner
parties featuring foreign foods he
did not want to eat. He delayed the
closing because of Chinese
spiritual beliefs and hunted
around New York for a “feng shui”
Continued on Page A12
Russia’s ‘Troll Army’ Retaliates
Against an Effort to Expose It
By ANDREW HIGGINS
HELSINKI, Finland — Seeking
to shine some light into the dark
world of Internet trolls, a journalist with Finland’s national broadcaster asked members of her audience to share their experiences of
encounters with Russia’s “troll
army,” a raucous and often venomous force of online agitators.
The response was overwhelming, though not in the direction
that the journalist, Jessikka Aro,
had hoped.
As she expected, she received
some feedback from people who
had clashed with aggressively
pro-Russian voices online. But she
was taken aback, and shaken, by a
vicious retaliatory campaign of
harassment and insults against
her and her work by those same
pro-Russian voices.
“Everything in my life went to
hell thanks to the trolls,” said Ms.
Aro, a 35-year-old investigative
reporter with the social media division of Finland’s state broadContinued on Page A7
INTERNATIONAL A4-9
SCIENCE TIMES D1-6
Syrian Prisoners Fear Reprisal
Saving the Red-Spotted Newt
Inmates who seized control of the main
prison in Hama, Syria, were worried
that the security forces massed outside
would soon storm the facility and masPAGE A6
sacre them.
Many species of salamanders in the
United States may be on the brink of
PAGE D1
assault by a deadly fungus.
NATIONAL A10-15
Ex-Foes Join Hands on ‘Brexit’
Outrage Over Zoo Killing
After recent heated exchanges, London’s Labor Party mayor, Sadiq Khan,
and the Conservative prime minister,
David Cameron, are pressing to keep
Britain in the European Union. PAGE A4
The Cincinnati Zoo defended itself after
animal rights advocates objected to the
killing of a western lowland gorilla, an
endangered species, during the rescue
of a child who fell into its pen. PAGE A10
JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Jessikka Aro, right, a Finnish journalist, was harassed after reporting on the rise of abusive pro-Russian posts on the Internet.
SPORTSTUESDAY B7-11
BUSINESS DAY B1-6
Dry Days Aren’t Over Out West
Deal to End Verizon Strike
Even though water-use restrictions
were lifted after a wet winter in California, new problems for the water supply
PAGE A10
are expected.
Verizon reached tentative agreements
with unions for nearly 40,000 striking
workers, retreating on some points but
gaining options to pare its staff. PAGE B1
NEW YORK A18-21
ARTS C1-8
Making Space for Artists
A Debate on Rap Rekindled
Artists in Manhattan often feel
squeezed out, but a few culturally inclined developers are finding space for
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some. The Appraisal.
A fatal shooting during a hip-hop concert in Manhattan last week has
reignited talk about both safety and
racial profiling at shows.
PAGE C1
Warriors Return to Finals
Led by Stephen Curry, Golden State
reached its second straight N.B.A.
finals, beating the Oklahoma City ThunPAGE B7
der, 96-88.
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
David Brooks
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By NOAM SCHEIBER
For decades, bosses at publishing houses, glossy magazines,
consulting
firms,
advocacy
groups, movie production companies and talent agencies have
groomed their assistants to be the
next generation of big shots by
working them long hours for low
wages.
Call it the “Devil Wears Prada”
economy, after the novel depicting
life working for a fictionalized
Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue
editor.
But now, with the Obama administration moving to require
time-and-a-half overtime pay for
most salaried employees making
less than $47,476 a year, that business model is suddenly under assault. The change presents more
than an economic challenge for
the companies that rely on the
willingness of young, ambitious
workers to trade pay and self-respect for a shot at a prestige job
down the road.
In the eyes of those who have
survived the gantlet of midday
coffee runs and late-night emails,
Continued on Page B3