Jan. 11, 2012 — The Detroit metropolitan area, has a long history of racial antagonism between the city and its suburbs. According to Thomas J. Sugrue, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania...view
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History, Role of government, Urban Policy
Jan. 11, 2012 — As Remapping Debate recently reported, the short-term fiscal crisis facing the City of Detroit is actually a reflection of more long-standing structural problems related to a...view
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Alternative models, Quality of life, Urban Policy
Dec. 21, 2011 — In a Nov. 16 speech, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing told municipal officials, union leaders, and members of the press that, unless changes are made in the budget, the city will run out of...view
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Alternative models, Labor
Dec. 21, 2011 — American autoworkers are constantly told that high-wage work is an unsustainable relic in the face of a hyper-competitive, globalized marketplace. Apostles of neo-liberal economic...view
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Taxes
Dec. 8, 2011 — Good news if you are a New York family in the “one percent”: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has given most of you a large tax cut. Indeed, if you have an adjusted gross income of $1.8...view
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Immigration
Dec. 7, 2011 — Offered the opportunity to describe how immigration to the United States should ideally be regulated, representatives of three prominent pro-immigration organizations painted a broad...view
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NYC, Role of government
Dec. 7, 2011 — Why doesn’t the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation have facility-by-facility information on operating costs, staffing, and utilization on its website or otherwise readily...view
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Economy, Taxes
Dec. 3, 2011 (updated Dec. 6) — In 1941, six years after the passage of the Social Security Act, President Franklin Roosevelt was asked about the logic of funding Social Security with a dedicated...view
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Gender equity
Nov. 16, 2011 — “Equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” That’s section one of the Equal Rights Amendment.
“The Congress shall...view
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Health care
Nov. 9, 2011 — Countless times every day, a patient is made to wait long past a scheduled appointment time to see a physician or other medical professional, or is given only 10 or 15 minutes when he...view