Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Schools, cost of living, drugs and violence, and jobs. “Many black Chicagoans have taken only small steps away from the city, resettling in nearby suburbs in Illinois or Indiana that offer more highly rated schools and a lower cost of living.” “The couple moved in with Dora, their oldest daughter, who traded Chicago for Hillside for a very different reason: She was fed up with drug sales and violence in the family’s neighborhood on the West Side.” “And in the next generation, Ke’Oisha, the Whites’ oldest grandchild, left Chicago for job opportunities elsewhere, following a path out of the city… Read more »
This is not journalism, it’s a tug-at-the-heartstrings essay, that contains many factual inaccuracies. Chicago is losing population overall, as it has nearly every decade, except for one, for over 100 years. Africanx-Americans are leaving at ‘disproportional’ rates compared to other races and the only ‘growth’ race is hispanicx, and there are not enough hispanicx to offset the losses of whitex and blackx and asianx. The booming lakeshore and north side areas with whitex people merely offset the decades of losses of whitex people from other areas in the city including the northwest, southwest and west sides, as they’ve all fled… Read more »