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 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 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...
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