by admin | Dec 23, 2008 | Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
There were riots in Greece last week just four years after Athens hosted the Olympics (and several months after the media started to ask was it worth it? The proximate cause? An incident of police brutality after clashes between police and protesters left one 15-year...
by admin | Dec 22, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…what do you see when you read the following articles in tandem? Hedge Funds Overlook Madoff Risk. A Reeling City is a Snapshot of Economic Woes. Squeezed on all sides, parents forgo day care. New target for Mexico’s Drug Cartels: Schools. ...
by admin | Dec 18, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Check out the following press release from Good Jobs First: Foreign Auto Plants Have Received $3.6 Billion In Subsidies, Mostly from Southern States Responding to many queries, Good Jobs First released its summary of state and local subsidies given to...
by admin | Dec 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Detroit is the modern city. What we think of when we think of the modern urban condition (from relying on automobiles and freeways to drive, from using cities to house labor for factories, to stereotypes of crime and urban dysfunction) all happened in Detroit first....
by admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Roland Fryer has been working on a program that pays children for academic success for a while now, and its been rolled out in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. even though research argues that it does little to nothing to reduce the achievement gap. For all...
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