I Feel Better than James Brown

[Max Sawicky]

embrace of an economic doctrine -- NAIRU -- that
writes black folks
out of the labor market.  So at whom should
minorities be angry?
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max,
what does NAIRU stand for?  working on economic
development and environmental justice issues, i
call these policies as TWIMBY (third world in my
backyard).

after all, we have

	1.	continuation of the siting of toxic generators
in communities of color and low income and not
enough attention to properly cleaning the "legacy"
wastes of the past.

	2.	low wage dead end jobs, often with hazardous substances

	3.	profits being exported out of the neighborhoods

	4.	little attention paid to building equity in
community residents
any thoughts?

Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment.
It means the lowest rate to which unemployment can sink without
triggering accelerating inflation.  Till the mid-90's it was
thought to be 5.5 or 6 percent.

The TWIMBY stuff, other than your #2, is important but different.
It speaks to the uses of federalism to marginalize, exploit, and
disenfranchise people along race and class lines.  It suggests
some things I would add to my model anti-racist program, which
I posted to the LP list a couple of days ago.

mbs