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Urban Policy in the Rust Belt

Infrastructure Policy in the Rust Belt

Construction Workforce in the Rust Belt

Manufacturing Workforce in the Rust Belt

Mama Don't let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Manufacturing Workers? 

Rust Belt Cities - Single Party Government

Will Air Conditioning Destroy the Rust Belt?

Trade Policy - Selling Out the Rust Belt?

.... and many more

Toledo tries......

http://www.toledoblade.com/Featured-Editorial-Home/2016/05/08/Progressive-and-possible.html

(c) 2016 The Blade Company

The Down Side of Manufacturing in the U.S.

From Forbes, (c) 2016

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkiley5/2016/05/10/why-u-s-manufacturing-workers-are-on-food-stamps-and-medicaid

Decades of efforts to depress blue collar wages have paid off, for the 1% anyway.

We will address this in detail in the near future.

Everybody Loves Flint

Suddenly everybody loves Flint.

People who cannot find Flint on a map love Flint.

People who would never think of spending time in Flint (or in Michigan) love Flint.

People who support economic policies that damage the rust belt love Flint – especially when there are tv cameras in the area.

People who are opposed to fixing and improving infrastructure love Flint infrastructure.

The orgy of Flint-loving is hypocrisy on steroids, but then we are all hypocrites about something.

Michigan Economic Development Program (sarcasm alert)

Michigan has a new economic development program!

By allowing the infrastructure to crumble, particularly the highways and roadways, the state is boosting business....

.....  for tire shops, alignment shops, body shops, car dealers.......

Sorry, "tired of buying tires."

Book Review

The gloomy future of the rust belt, in one very readable book.

The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico Moretti
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2012

Available used at on-line vendors.

NAFTA Rolls On - Carrier Corp. Goes South

The damage from NAFTA just keeps rolling on.

http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2016/02/10/carrier-move-indy-unit-mexico-eliminate-1400-jobs/80181804/

We think this could be fodder for the presidential campaign, as primaries move into the midwest.

Stay tuned.