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The unemployment rate in Germany continues to increase, according to data from the German Federal Employment Agency (BA). Figures from the BA showed that the number of unemployed Germans [...]
The world is not currently facing just any old energy crisis. This one is so massive that it is shutting down major industries like steel that function as a bedrock of industrialized society. [...]
We tend to talk about places like braddock, pennsylvania or flint, michigan but we should also talk about benton harbor. you can find every last social ill that goes with industrial collapse right here. failing schools, crime, high unemployment, polluted land, corrupt government. the whole rusting away to misery and frustration and schedule one drugs deal with it, all of it. so benton harbor has not got much besides heartache but has always had this one wonderful communal asset. one cherished jewel of the community called gene clock park with a beach right on lake michigan for the people of be...
It's got a a per capita income of $33,000. it's something of a vacation town, a weekend getaway for people in chicago. it's not purely that but that's what it is. that's st. joseph's. benton harbor is its twin, population not quite 11,000 approaching 90% african-american where st. joseph is nearly 90% white. per capita income in benton harbor last estimate is less than one-third of its twin across the river in st. joe and benton harbor per capita income is just over $10,000. which is very, very low. even the people who love benton harbor, michigan will tell you benton harbor has not got much. ...