"Michigan's "Big 3 auto firms have become beggars...University of Michigan...charges the highest tuition of any public university. Michigan's number of US Representatives has dropped from 19 in 1960 to 15 in 2000. What underlies the state's decline, where industrial cities rot, unemployment soars...youth flee."
In Mason Gaffney's Georgist article, he describes how Detroit could rise again, anytime it wants to. |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)