Summary
The op-ed pages of many newspapers are filled with promptings to think big if we are to abort the depression created by the irrational, mainline economics of the last generation. But, they mostly offer top-down proposals. We had better ask what will make life better at the local level. A living wage, for sure. More accessible health care. Better schools, with the understanding that results can only be measured in a decade or later. More small parks to ease the urban concentration generated as we wean ourselves from the automobile. Good community swimming pools for every neighborhood. A more livable city, in other words.
Don't let anyone say, "We can't afford it." It is more important to bail out and subsidize communities than the swollen, floating casinos the finance and business world foisted on us.See the full content of this document
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Focus On Improving Life at Local Level?
As one who has been chairman of a city...
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