Period during the 1980s in which Ronald Reagan started the War on Drugs which ultimately made obtaining drugs as easy as obtaining groceries. This led to thousands of Americans becoming addicted to crack cocaine, resulting in women giving birth to crack babies. The real victims of this era were the babies who were born addicted to crack.
The American population of homeless, largely comprised of the mentally ill, displaced upon President Reagan's disbanding of state-run mental health institutions.
Reaganomics shifted the tax burden from the wealthy to the middle class, real income plummeted for most Americans while CEO salaries and the national debt sored!