Andrew Cuomo in Clinton Cabinet members actions and issues
On Welfare & Poverty:
Made fighting racial discrimination a key focus of HUD
In 1997, Cuomo was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Under his leadership,
HUD was transformed from a wasteful and inefficient bureaucracy to an effective driver of economic development and housing opportunities.
As secretary, Cuomo made fighting racial discrimination a key focus and brought 2,000 anti-discrimination cases all across the country.
Andrew Cuomo's work earned HUD the prestigious "Innovations in American Government Award" from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on three different occasions.
Source: NY.gov official website for Clinton Cabinet biographies
Dec 31, 2018
On Principles & Values:
1982: ran father Mario Cuomo's gubernatorial campaign
As a teenager in Queens, New York, Cuomo put up posters to help his father, Democrat Mario Cuomo, campaign for state office. Andrew graduated from Fordham University in 1979, the year in which his father became New York lieutenant governor.
After graduating from Albany Law School (J.D., 1982), he ran the campaign that made his father governor (1983--95). For the next two years Andrew worked as his father's senior advisor in Albany.
Source: Britannica Encyclopedia for Clinton Cabinet biographies
Dec 2, 2018
On Welfare & Poverty:
1984: Founded HELP: Housing Enterprises for Less Privileged
In 1984 Cuomo moved to New York City, where he became an assistant district attorney and a partner in the law firm of Blutrich, Falcone & Miller. During this time, he began to focus on the problems of the city's homeless population, and in 1986 he
founded Housing Enterprises for the Less Privileged (HELP), an organization that provided transitional housing for people living on the streets. Cuomo's efforts for the homeless led to his appointment in 1991 to chair the New York City Commission on the
Homeless. After Clinton's election as president in November 1992, Cuomo went to Washington, D.C., to help with the transition to the new administration and stayed to work on housing at the federal level. In May 1993 the U.S. Senate confirmed his
appointment to HUD as assistant secretary for Community Planning and Development, where Cuomo introduced new government policies to move the homeless into permanent housing with the help of transitional housing and expanded social services.
Source: Britannica Encyclopedia for Clinton Cabinet biographies
Dec 2, 2018
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