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...
by admin | Dec 15, 2008 | NPR, The Mass Media |
Early last week at around the same time that my neighbor fell asleep at the wheel, taking out my mailbox in the process (about 1:30am), I got an email from a friend in Europe. News and Notes had been cancelled. I’ve been a fan of NPR now going back over twenty...
by admin | Dec 13, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
GM doesn’t have enough money to go through the year. Chrysler is for all intents and purposes a dead man walking. Ford has enough, but if the other two go out, then who knows? In following the talk about the bailout I hear a lot more resentment in this case than...
by admin | Dec 12, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Obama |
We hit the Illinois Pay-for-Play scandal hard on the Barbershop. For me it was the most ghetto version of the politics as business model that we’ve been infected with at least since the Reagan era. “Running the city like a business”, the idea of...
by admin | Dec 8, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, Urban Politics |
DETROIT — The Sunday service at Greater Grace Temple began with the Clark Sisters song “I’m Looking for a Miracle” and included a reading of this verse from the Book of Romans: “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be...
by admin | Dec 7, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama, things that make you go hmm |
Unofficially our unemployment rate is 12.5% the highest in recent record. And if we consider UNDERemployment rates we’re in even poorer shape. This is how Obama responds: On the heels of more grim unemployment news, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday offered...
by admin | Dec 5, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism |
According to the Labor Department, the number of unemployed workers rose by 251,000 in November. But the number of people who were outside of the labor force — that is, neither working nor looking for work — rose by much more: 637,000. These people aren’t counted as...
by admin | Dec 4, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
According to the Worldwatch Institute, the value of global trade in food has tripled since 1961, and the tonnage of food shipped between nations has grown fourfold, while population has only doubled. In North America food typically travels between 1,500 and 2,500...
by admin | Dec 3, 2008 | Education, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm
Another obstacle to quality teaching and research lies in the fact that the increasing loss of public funding is pushing more universities to align themselves with the national security state, which then faithfully rewards them with billions of dollars in research...
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
I got this from Grace Boggs. Worth reading, posting, and re-posting: ….. Our Time is Not the 1930s By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008 Two weeks ago in my first post- election column, I wrote that I will not be among those organizing or...
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