Jarrett Murphy, Author at City Limits

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Pedro Espada, the Bronx senator at the center of last year’s leadership battle in Albany, has been sued for allegedly looting a nonprofit he helped run. Read the attorney general’s…

ByJarrett Murphy 0 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Economy

Rates and Race: The Fed And Black Workers

The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful forces in the American economy. This City Limits web extra asks whether its policies help or hurt the black unemployed.

ByJarrett Murphy 8 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Uncategorized

Census Uncertainty For New York's Prisoners

This week Maryland became the first state to say it will count prison inmates in their home towns when redrawing legislative districts. Will New York follow?

ByJarrett Murphy 5 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Uncategorized

White House: Congestion Pricing On The Table

The Obama administration’s efforts to stop sprawl and make cities livable might include new rail lines, water commuting and—possibly—using tolls to fight traffic and pollution.

ByJarrett Murphy 3 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Economy

Stimulus Seen Failing Jobless Blacks

As City Limits Magazine looks at the crisis of black unemployment, this web exclusive examines how the federal stimulus bill has—and hasn’t—helped.

ByJarrett Murphy 7 minRead time

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Apr 2010

ARTS and CULTURE Economy Housing and Homelessness Justice

The Search for the Smoking Gun

During four decades of debate over the causes of black-male joblessness and unemployment, there have been two broad schools of thought. There were those who blamed the problem on the…

ByJarrett Murphy 38 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Economy

Like A Canyon

Just north of 125th Street, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture displays a timeline of black political activism. The familiar faces— Garvey, DuBois, King, Malcolm X, Jackson— are…

ByJarrett Murphy 11 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Government

Charter Debate: A Zero-Sum Game?

At a Charter Revision Commission hearing in the Bronx, the theme was power: Who wants more, and who’s supposed to give it up.

ByJarrett Murphy 7 minRead time

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Apr 2010

ARTS and CULTURE Economy

In This Recession Pain Has A Color

The day that Barack Obama became President, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Plaza outside the state office building on 125th Street and Seventh Avenue was alive with expectant joy. The crowd…

ByJarrett Murphy 11 minRead time

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Apr 2010

Economy

The New Dream

In January and February the national unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent— lower than in late 2009. That was seen as a sign that the economy was rounding the…

ByJarrett Murphy 8 minRead time

Jarrett Murphy

Espada Sued For Raiding Nonprofit

Rates and Race: The Fed And Black Workers

Census Uncertainty For New York's Prisoners

White House: Congestion Pricing On The Table

Stimulus Seen Failing Jobless Blacks

The Search for the Smoking Gun

Like A Canyon

Charter Debate: A Zero-Sum Game?

In This Recession Pain Has A Color

The New Dream

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