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Government policies have favored shareholders over displaced workers in cities like Baltimore for five decades, and there's no reason those who own the system see any reason to change.Yep, because in right wing world, cities are in a bubble not related to how state/federal Gov't policies are in effect *shaking head*
"Yet at a moment when the debate over the president’s push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is one of Washington’s central battles, Baltimore is Exhibit A for why there is such frustration over how the costs of globalization and technological change have been borne almost entirely by the least advantaged people in our society.
"Baltimore and its inner suburbs were once home to the vast manufacturing facilities operated by Bethlehem Steel, General Motors and Martin Marietta, notes Thomas J. Vicino, author of Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore. In 1970, about a third of the labor force in Baltimore and its first-tier suburbs was employed in manufacturing.
"By 2000, only 7 percent of city residents had manufacturing jobs, and the losses have continued since. An awareness of this, Vicino says, should shape our understanding of what’s happening in the city now."
E.J. Dionne Jr. Baltimore and the hollow ring of globalization - Editorial - Ohio