June 8, 2015
The mother's cries (click here) filled the empty street in Bridgeport as her 17-year-old son lay under a white sheet behind yellow crime scene tape.
"I just need to touch him," she cried out. "I just need to see it's my child. Please."
Then in a final plea, she screamed, "Just let me get him. Let me get him."...
...Chicago has hit the somber milestone even sooner than the violent year of 2012, when the city saw 500 homicides for the first time since 2008 (poverty and crime). Shootings that year were up 11 percent. The city reached the 1,000 mark on June 6 in 2012. In 2013 it was on June 26 and last year it was on June 15.
This year, Chicago passed the mark sometime late Thursday into early Friday morning, according to data collected and analyzed by the Chicago Tribune....
There were many minorities that lost wealth in 2008 and never recovered it.
Interestingly, (click here) it looked like the index for single family homes bottomed
in April of 2009, but then it dipped three more times. Much of this
repeated dipping is a seasonal effect but recently the seasonal recovery
in prices was exceptionally strong. May and June 2012 came along and
blew the numbers out of the water – prices were up 4.5% and 4.6% from
April and May respectively, which is huge. Even after adjusting for
seasonality these were the largest one month increases in 24 years.
Guns are facilitating the crime economy in Chicago.
November 26, 2014
More than a quarter of Chicago households (click here) –more than 282,000–recently turned to the Chicago Housing Authority in their search for a better or more affordable home.
The households are vying for an apartment in public housing or a housing voucher, either of which could be a step up from their current living situations. But the huge response to the four-week registration period for the agency’s wait lists also exposes a glaring need for quality, affordable housing in Chicago.
The registration period, which ended Monday, is the first time CHA has opened its public housing wait list since 2010 and its voucher wait list since 2008. The wait lists, for the first time, used a single online application....
Segregation.
November 16. 2015
...With 25 percent of its African-American residents jobless, (click here) Chicago has the highest black unemployment rate among the nation’s five most populous cities.
Chicago’s rate is higher than Philadelphia’s 19 percent, Los Angeles' 18 percent, Houston’s 15 percent and New York City’s 14 percent, based on 2013 U.S. Census figures.
Why?
Experts point to Chicago’s unique brand of residential segregation, among other factors. Almost 75 percent of black Chicagoans live in a community that’s at least 90 percent black, according to Census data. Blacks are about one-third of Chicago's population. The unemployment rate for white Chicagoans is 7 percent; for Latinos, it's 12 percent....
May 27, 2014
The mother's cries (click here) filled the empty street in Bridgeport as her 17-year-old son lay under a white sheet behind yellow crime scene tape.
"I just need to touch him," she cried out. "I just need to see it's my child. Please."
Then in a final plea, she screamed, "Just let me get him. Let me get him."...
...Chicago has hit the somber milestone even sooner than the violent year of 2012, when the city saw 500 homicides for the first time since 2008 (poverty and crime). Shootings that year were up 11 percent. The city reached the 1,000 mark on June 6 in 2012. In 2013 it was on June 26 and last year it was on June 15.
This year, Chicago passed the mark sometime late Thursday into early Friday morning, according to data collected and analyzed by the Chicago Tribune....
There were many minorities that lost wealth in 2008 and never recovered it.
Guns are facilitating the crime economy in Chicago.
November 26, 2014
More than a quarter of Chicago households (click here) –more than 282,000–recently turned to the Chicago Housing Authority in their search for a better or more affordable home.
The households are vying for an apartment in public housing or a housing voucher, either of which could be a step up from their current living situations. But the huge response to the four-week registration period for the agency’s wait lists also exposes a glaring need for quality, affordable housing in Chicago.
The registration period, which ended Monday, is the first time CHA has opened its public housing wait list since 2010 and its voucher wait list since 2008. The wait lists, for the first time, used a single online application....
Segregation.
November 16. 2015
...With 25 percent of its African-American residents jobless, (click here) Chicago has the highest black unemployment rate among the nation’s five most populous cities.
Chicago’s rate is higher than Philadelphia’s 19 percent, Los Angeles' 18 percent, Houston’s 15 percent and New York City’s 14 percent, based on 2013 U.S. Census figures.
Why?
Experts point to Chicago’s unique brand of residential segregation, among other factors. Almost 75 percent of black Chicagoans live in a community that’s at least 90 percent black, according to Census data. Blacks are about one-third of Chicago's population. The unemployment rate for white Chicagoans is 7 percent; for Latinos, it's 12 percent....
$15 million to fight blight in 4 cities. That doesn't even come close to what is needed. The cuts in the US Budget after such a huge economic disaster is far to little.
May 27, 2014
...Gary, Indianapolis and three other Indiana cities (click here) have received a total of about $15 million to help
eliminate blighted and abandoned homes.
The
other cities granted funds from the Hardest Hit Fund Blight Elimination
Program are East Chicago and Hammond in northwest Indiana and the city
of Lawrence in Marion County. The grants are the first round in a series
of grants that will total $75 million.
Gary
will receive $6.6 million of the initial amount. A team spent several
months collecting data on blighted structures throughout the northwest
Indiana city....
The unemployment rate for African Americans hasn't budged in 50 years. NAFTA had no effect and neither will the TPP or any other trade agreement.
August 28, 2013
By Brad Plumer
..."Indeed," (click here) notes EPI, "black America is nearly always facing an employment situation that would be labeled a particularly severe recession if it characterized the entire labor force. From 1963 to 2012, the ... annual black unemployment rate averaged 11.6 percent. This was... higher than the average annual national unemployment rate during the recessions in this period — 6.7 percent."...
The cities that have trouble with crime and homicides have the highest unemployment rates among African Americans. So, what is a man to do? Turn toward crime because nothing else he tries works.
Prison is part of life and simply an extension of the community.
The unemployment rate for African Americans hasn't budged in 50 years. NAFTA had no effect and neither will the TPP or any other trade agreement.
August 28, 2013By Brad Plumer
..."Indeed," (click here) notes EPI, "black America is nearly always facing an employment situation that would be labeled a particularly severe recession if it characterized the entire labor force. From 1963 to 2012, the ... annual black unemployment rate averaged 11.6 percent. This was... higher than the average annual national unemployment rate during the recessions in this period — 6.7 percent."...
The cities that have trouble with crime and homicides have the highest unemployment rates among African Americans. So, what is a man to do? Turn toward crime because nothing else he tries works.
Prison is part of life and simply an extension of the community.
