Michael Lind is right that this is what it will take to get the South to stop its anti-labor, anti-infrastructure, anti-government investments, job-poaching approach to governance.
His suggestions toward that end include:
• Restoring federal revenue sharing;
• Getting a real living wage;
• Replacing the power of state and local economic development corporations (started in the South/Texas) to poach Northern jobs) with a real federal-state partnership.
Read the full story; it’s good.
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December 18, 2008
‘A third Reconstruction’
Labels:
economic policy,
Lind (Michael),
Southern states
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