By David Barton Smith (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) July 1, 2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of Medicare’s inauguration. After Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory in 1964, the passage of the Medicare Act in 1965 surprised no one. The surprise, concealed and never fully acknowledged, came with its implementation. Rather than the typical pattern, the … [Read more...] about “Stealth Capture: The Civil Rights Movement and the Implementation of Medicare” by David Barton Smith (April-June 2016 Issue)
“Postindustrial Cities and Urban Inequality” by Tracy Neumann (April-June 2016 P&R Issue)
By Tracy Neumann (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Link to the Issue... In 2013, Carnegie Mellon University invited three hundred urban specialists from North America and Europe to Pittsburgh to discuss the future of postindustrial cities at the “Remaking Cities Congress.” The Congress was held to promote the city’s much-lauded “25-year transformation from an … [Read more...] about “Postindustrial Cities and Urban Inequality” by Tracy Neumann (April-June 2016 P&R Issue)
“Forging Equitable Communities: Creating New Structures of Opportunity” by Gary L. Cunningham (Jan-Mar 2016 P&R Issue)
By Gary L. Cunningham (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Introduction One of my vivid childhood memories is of my mother looking out the window of our small house in one of the poorest neighborhoods in North Minneapolis. Outside, in the dead of winter, white men were standing around a backhoe digging up the street to turn off our gas main. That night my mother and … [Read more...] about “Forging Equitable Communities: Creating New Structures of Opportunity” by Gary L. Cunningham (Jan-Mar 2016 P&R Issue)
Unearthing and Undoing the Lethal Belief in Racial Hierarchy (Jan – March 2016 P&R Issue)
Gail C. Christopher Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation As the airwaves have been flooded with news of shootings and the killing of unarmed people of color by armed police officers during the last year and a half, many have had to search their hearts and revisit the reality of our nation’s legacy of racial division. For most of us seeing these apparent injustices … [Read more...] about Unearthing and Undoing the Lethal Belief in Racial Hierarchy (Jan – March 2016 P&R Issue)
“The Problem We All Live With: A Speech at HUD in the Shadow of Baltimore” by Sherillyn Ifill (Jan-Mar 2016)
By Sherillyn Ifill (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I want to pause and talk with you all today a little bit about the contemporary manifestation of some of the history that Richard [Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute, fellow speaker] is talking about and also encourage you to make what I think are some important connections between what you have been … [Read more...] about “The Problem We All Live With: A Speech at HUD in the Shadow of Baltimore” by Sherillyn Ifill (Jan-Mar 2016)
