As a sometime resident of Detroit, I can attest to the fact that the city
has radically changed in the last 10 - 15 years. Entire neighborhoods
I remember are now vacant lots (the city has lost (over) half its population
since the mid-70's). I don't know how closely any of this this correlates
w
I suggest a look at 'The Death of General Assistance in Michigan' by Lyke
Thompson in the book The Politics of Welfare Reform, Norris and Thompson
ed. Sage Publications 1995. The issue is pretty complex because of the
cyclical character of the auto industry and the seasonal character of
tourism
> A couple of completely unrelated questions for the pen-l crowd:
>
> 1) A statistic often trotted out to attest to the uncontested hegemony of the
> immediate post-war U.S. is the fact that U.S. industrial output comprised
> more than 50 percent of total world industrial output. Is this figure
>
A couple of completely unrelated questions for the pen-l crowd:
1) A statistic often trotted out to attest to the uncontested hegemony of the
immediate post-war U.S. is the fact that U.S. industrial output comprised
more than 50 percent of total world industrial output. Is this figure
artificiall
