Detroit's Downfall: Beyond the Myth of Black Misleadership

Marilyn Katz In These Times
How federal policy and Big Auto drove black blight and white flight. Detroit's first black mayor, Coleman Young, and those that followed may not have known it, but Detroit was already on life support and they were the hospice team.

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Economist Heidi Shierholz Economic Policy Institute

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Austerity Hampered Job Growth

Heather Boushey The Wall Street Journal
Sharp cuts in government spending implemented March 1 as part of the sequester are slowing the recovery. The federal government shed another 14,000 workers in May, for a total of 45,000 jobs cut over the past three months. The federal work force now is smaller than at any time since February 2008.
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