A bit far afield maybe, but an interesting bit of fallout from the recession and the continued squeezing of government: This devastating problem has gotten far worse the past five years, the result of budget-strapped state courts looking for sources of revenue and ever more poor people becoming ensnared in the court system. For decades,…
Category: Inequality
City unemployment, underpinning California’s budget crisis
Four of the five cities with double the national unemployment rate are in California, no surprise to those of us who have been following the state’s deep recession (and interesting to consider in light of the coastal/inland divide described in last week’s New York Times, and the debate that has generated). Read: Bottom Line – Cities…
As Public Sector Sheds Jobs, Blacks Are Hit Hardest
Pamela Sparks, a longtime postal worker in Baltimore, has several relatives at the Postal Service and worries about their jobs. Full article