The unemployment rate in Germany continues to increase, according to data from the German Federal Employment Agency (BA). Figures from the BA showed that the number of unemployed Germans [.]
The world is not currently facing just any old energy crisis. This one is so massive that it is shutting down major industries like steel that function as a bedrock of industrialized society. [.]
progress on money? we are free but not equal. as a matter of fact, free but less equal. i think one evidence was the housing collapse. we were targeted, stood and clustered based upon race. we won the lawsuits but the lawsuit did not compare with housing lost. in chicago, jobs out, the industrial collapse, a big factor in it. this past summer they cut pel grants, summer pel grants. last year, 800 students, this year, it has 500 summer pelle pell grants and where dr. mar ttin luther king went to school, it had to go on furlough during the spring break because lack of access to capital. lack of access to capital is a big deal. it s not one thing, it s a lot of things really propelled forward more recently by the housing crisis. when you look at the recovery,
we tend to talk about places like braddock, pennsylvania or flint, michigan but we should also talk about benton harbor. you can find every last social ill that goes with industrial collapse right here. failing schools, crime, high unemployment, polluted land, corrupt government. the whole rusting away to misery and frustration and schedule one drugs deal with it, all of it. so benton harbor has not got much besides heartache but has always had this one wonderful communal asset. one cherished jewel of the community called gene clock park with a beach right on lake michigan for the people of benton harbor. it was a gift to the town in 1917 from john clock who founded the local newspaper and served as benton harbor mayor. the clarks named the park after a daughter they lost as a baby, baby jean. they told the town, quote, the beach is yours. the drive is yours. the dunes are yours all yours.
it s got a a per capita income of $33,000. it s something of a vacation town, a weekend getaway for people in chicago. it s not purely that but that s what it is. that s st. joseph s. benton harbor is its twin, population not quite 11,000 approaching 90% african-american where st. joseph is nearly 90% white. per capita income in benton harbor last estimate is less than one-third of its twin across the river in st. joe and benton harbor per capita income is just over $10,000. which is very, very low. even the people who love benton harbor, michigan will tell you benton harbor has not got much. we tend to talk about places like braddock, pennsylvania or flint, michigan but we should also talk about benton harbor. you can find every last social ill that goes with industrial collapse right here. failing schools, crime, high unemployment, polluted land, corrupt government.