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[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by treemoni

I'm not feeding into your derail. Bigots always show their colors--they can't help themselves. Good day.

Most CPS drop outs don't have the verbal communication skills to work in call centers, which require excellent verbal communication skills.

The problems of the urban underclass in Chicago can't be solved by the mayor alone.

These statements make me a bigot in your world view? You live in a fantasy world, buddy. But it's easier to just blame Rahm Emanuel for the city's problems than to actually do anything about them, I suppose.

[ChiNaan]

Originally Posted by chet everett

...honestly even if the city made an effort to get some admitedlly low paying jobs like "call centers" set up in some of the job wastelands that exist it would be a useful start. I know that places in rural Oklahoma near the Native American areas hard hit by poverty have benefited from even these modest efforts....

Call Centers Hiring, Seeking Customer Service Flare | NewsFactor Business

Interesting. Cost of living is extremely low in rural Oklahoma, though, which is why call centers locate there. They can get people with decent communication skills for $8-15 an hour, because that will afford a lower-middle-class type of lifestyle there. Not so much in Chicago.

[ChiNaan]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

Most CPS drop outs don't have the verbal communication skills to work in call centers, which require excellent verbal communication skills.

The problems of the urban underclass in Chicago can't be solved by the mayor alone.

These statements make me a bigot in your world view? You live in a fantasy world, buddy. But it's easier to just blame Rahm Emanuel for the city's problems than to actually do anything about them, I suppose.

I agree that we're dealing with a national economic problem (shrinking middle class, fewer living wage jobs, etc.) more than a local one, but Rahm's policies are contributing to the problem rather than fighting it. He's acting out of the right-wing playbook of privatizing public assets, funneling as much as possible to the wealthy. They don't call him Mayor 1% for nothing.

[mjtinmemphis]

If the playing field was leveled for Black owned construction companies for the past 20 years, if there where more integration and not dumping section 8 residents on Chatham and suburban Maywood, if there was more progressive hiring practices by local owned businesses, I think we would a different city.

There have been so few times I have walked into a locally owned restaurant and had a Black Male waiter. Or was checked out of the local meet market by a Black teenage cashier. Those options have not been provided for our young Black males in this city.

Chicago has a lot of work to do to have a fully functional city that extends outside of a few areas. Too much talent has left the south side for the south and other parts of the country because of racism. Most non racist White Chicagoans have no clue as how bad this city is compared to smaller cities throughout the country. 200000 residents leaving the city is huge.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by ChiNaan

Interesting. Cost of living is extremely low in rural Oklahoma, though, which is why call centers locate there. They can get people with decent communication skills for $8-15 an hour, because that will afford a lower-middle-class type of lifestyle there. Not so much in Chicago.

There are plenty of ways for folks to have a much better life in Chicago earning modest wages in a safe environment.

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[ChiNaan]

Originally Posted by chet everett

There are plenty of ways for folks to have a much better life in Chicago earning modest wages in a safe environment.

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets: Sudhir Venkatesh: 9780143114932: Amazon.com: Books

Whatever you say, Burb Boy. Having lived and worked in both places, I know a bit about the cost of living difference between the two. You see, some of us only comment on things we actually know about. Feel free to try this approach sometime.

[Runuova]

Originally Posted by Drover

I must be living in a North/Northwest Side bubble because I didn't even know this was going on. I guess I could tell something was finally happening over there on the rather rare occasions I found myself in East Side. But I didn't realize it was this.

South Lake Shore Drive extension soon open to drivers, development - Chicago Tribune

Well I'll be....

[s0nginmyheart]

So the bigger picture is this: Home | Lakeside

Mixed Use Development for Chicago Lakeside | Residential, Retail, Commercial Space | Lakeside

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by ChiNaan

I agree that we're dealing with a national economic problem (shrinking middle class, fewer living wage jobs, etc.) more than a local one, but Rahm's policies are contributing to the problem rather than fighting it. He's acting out of the right-wing playbook of privatizing public assets, funneling as much as possible to the wealthy. They don't call him Mayor 1% for nothing.

-- if Rahm was not such a slave to the folks that throw money at his campaign MAYBE he'd realize that serving those donors to a bigger slice of the pie will ultimately make Chicago even less governable precisely because the developers like to cater folks like Rahm himself: people that have made LOTS of money and like to spend it on things like private schools for their kids.

It would be very interesting to see how different things would be if there were more sense of local responsibility for encouraging income inequality...

Is Inequality the Purview of City Government? | City Notes

I don't agree with all of daniel hertz ideas but it hard to argue that Chicago has done much more for the haves than the have nots in both the Daley & Emmanual administrations.

[chet everett]

Originally Posted by ChiNaan

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