The social justice warriors at Yale have been leading the urban renewal and poverty efforts in New Haven and have achieved a record of failure that the dementia patient and Mayor Buttplug would envy.
Seventy Years Of Yale-Backed Do-Gooderism In New Haven, Connecticut
The urban renewal program in New Haven was undertaken on a massive scale. No other city in the United States could equal the ambitious commitment to such a large scale redevelopment of its business and residential districts. On a per capita basis, New Haven outranked all American cities in securing funds which produced an impressive experiment in the physical and human rejuvenation of a city.
In an October 2015 post, I previously wrote a fairly comprehensive review of the disastrous failure of New Haven’s desperate efforts to raise up its poor residents by the method of massive government spending and programs. From that post:
If these [programs] worked even a little, one would think that New Haven would have a poverty rate somewhat below, if not significantly below, national norms. If these things worked even a little, one would think that New Haven would have per capita income levels above, if not significantly above, national norms. But instead New Haven has poverty double the national norm and per capita income at or below the level of dead-last Mississippi. In other words, it's not that these programs are just not working. They are actively destructive of work effort and of striving and of upward mobility, trapping wildly disproportionate numbers of New Haven's citizens into generations of unbreakable poverty.
Today, inspired by my classmate’s email, I will update some of the statistics to see if another seven years of Yale do-gooderism have improved things in New Haven even a little:
Poverty rate. National rate (most recent figure from Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, reported September 2021 for the 2020 calendar year): 11.4%. For New Haven (same source) 25.2%. Thus New Haven’s poverty rate is well more than double the national norm. This is true despite the fact that Connecticut ranks second among the states in per capita income.
Per capita income. For the U.S. as a whole (Census estimate July 1, 2021): $35,384. For New Haven: $27,607 (same source).
Median household income. For the U.S. as a whole (Census estimate July 1, 2021): $64,994. For New Haven (same source): $44,507. For comparison, median household income for 2020 in last-in-the-nation Mississippi was $44,966. No other state had median household income below $50,000. Connecticut’s 2020 median household income was $79,043.
Murder rate. In 2021 New Haven had 25 murders and a population of about 134,000, for a rate of about 19 per 100,000. The national rate for 2021 was about 7 per 100,000.
You would think that after 70+ years of this people would start to catch on that something is not working. Instead, each year a fresh crop of young and naive kids come in with the idea that this time they will get it right because they are so much more earnest and more caring than the fogeys who preceded them. Nobody ever tells them about the 70 years of spending and programs that have only driven New Haven further and further into the ditch.
Deserves its own thread. We do the same thing with homelessness we just haven't been doing it as long. Liberal policies never have to actually work. They just need to spend other people's money and create jobs for govenment employees who in turn support the Rat party with their votes and their union dues.
How the corrupt DIM media works. You read that entire article and not once does it mention that Chopp is a D. It does mention that Republicans, the bad guys, are calling for the audit. Why is that? Maybe we're to assume if there's corruption it's always a DIM.
Remember when in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson sent General George Pershing into Mexico to stop the US incursions of the cartels uh, Pancho Villa. People forget this.
I'm sure you are mistaken. The dementia patient just nominated the first black IT (sex unknown and unknowable) to the Supreme Court who only coincidently is soft on grooming and child pornography.
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Creepy AF
He's definitely in his element there. He looks pretty happy to be in a refugee camp.
the cartelsuh, Pancho Villa. People forget this.Damn.
What a messed up couple.