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Originally Posted by Kenmore
lol^
this is great news for the city's much crapped on working class
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People like this are, of course, the problem. As if the mayor of an American city is at all responsible for the plight of the working class, or can do anything to help them.
The only way to reduce poverty at the local level or in the short term is for
poor people to move away. Cities reduce poverty by gentrifying. Sorry, but that’s a fact. Otherwise there is very little socioeconomic mobility within a generation (it’s very rare and difficult for a poor adult to not remain poor for the rest of their life), and education is something that cities have only limited control over (too much is down to parents or state/federal government).
Cities can attempt to prevent and punish crime (this is a valid criticism of Chicago’s government, but of course money is tight), and they can progress urban development, transportation projects, beautification projects and other public works.
Solving America’s inequality or other social ills is not what we should be asking of city government.
Now, giving the unions the finger and scrapping the city’s defined benefit pension obligations, while it would require the sign off of the state of Illinois, would definitely do some good.
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