On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: > > This reminded me of something. In the Anthony Bourdain show on > Cleveland that was re-aired in commemoration of Harvey Pekar's > passing, Harvey tells Bourdain that Cleveland had twice the > population in 1950 that it has today. The show included some > information about the decline of the steel industry. > I grew up in the heart of the rust belt. During the 70s, my brother was living in Youngstown, Ohio. He called me to tell me that a tornado had swept through the town. He was crestfallen that a tornado missed his house by only a couple hundred yards.
At the time, arson was a major industry because houses were insured for so much more than their value market. A tornado would have made him much better off without the risk of prosecution. I also remember when he came home from school one day asking my parents when they were going to be divorced. There was no marital disharmony in the house, but he saw that the parents of many of his classmates were getting divorced, because the jobs in the mills were disappearing. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
