#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
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The South Bronc and Its Impact on the Economy
The number of public health nurses who visit schools and homes has been cut in half in the last five years. Fewer welfare workers provide services, resulting in predawn lines at welfare centeres. 50 % of the homes have no heat. The ruination of the south bronc was a pretty recent phenomenon. In 12 years you went from almost half the population being white to all of them being gone. They fled as african americans and porto ricans had moved in. It was just a classic case of white flight. Property values crashed. Landlords couldn't find buyers. And so many of them just opted to strip the piping and electrical wiring and anything else that could be
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