Tag Archives: Youngstown

Reporting from the Ground Up

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Working-Class Perspectives

A few months ago, we wrote about Kelli Cole, a journalism student at Youngstown State University, whose senior project is an investigation of why there is such performance disparity between two public high schools in our area. East High School’s … Continue reading →

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The De Facto Unemployment Rate: 25.12%.

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Working-Class Perspectives

Ever since the early 1980s, residents of the Youngstown area have always been skeptical of government’s official unemployment rate. In 1982, the official unemployment rate hit 24.9% but declined to around 12% in early 1984. The Ohio governor and city … Continue reading →

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Youngstown’s Future and the “Tech Belt Megapolitan”

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Working-Class Perspectives

Youngstown 2010, the city’s award winning community plan, is structured around four principles that have provided the framework for all of the work that has followed: Accepting that Youngstown is a smaller city Defining Youngstown’s role in the new regional … Continue reading →

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To Race and Class Add Religion

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Working-Class Perspectives

Discussions of race and class often ignore religion, relegating it to the distant margins or explaining it away as a cover for something else.  If we examine American history, as historian Mark Noll does in God and Race in American … Continue reading →

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Health care for all: caring for the uninsured

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Working-Class Perspectives

As Jack Metzgar wrote last week, health coverage is an important issue for the working class.  As health insurance becomes less available and as urban hospitals around the country restructure, working-class people are bearing the brunt of the health care … Continue reading →

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Economic hope for the Mahoning Valley

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Working-Class Perspectives

On August, 21, 2008 General Motors’ CEO Rick Wagoner stood on a makeshift stage in front of a packed audience of Lordstown autoworkers, state and local politicians, and civic leaders from the Mahoning Valley to announce that his troubled global … Continue reading →

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Move That Bus!

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Working-Class Perspectives

One of the things that attracted me to the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University is its focus on “bread and butter” issues. As a new faculty affiliate of the center, I now help spotlight and evaluate some … Continue reading →

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