1.) City public schools have high dropout rates and a majority that graduate are functionally illiterate. Illiterates are not prepared to work and do not contribute to society or pay taxes.
2.) Cities have been dominated by Democrats for decades. Democrats focus on handouts and involving city governments in ventures that should be left to the private sector. In the process, cities have accrued massive debt and no means to pay down their debt.
3.) The people that live in cities by and large do not take responsibility for their own property, surroundings, and safety. They assume government will take care of them and they are entitled. Government always does the least efficient and effective job.
The solution is simple. State and federal funds need to be eliminated from cities. The people that live in cities need to pay for things with their own money. If they paid for their own schools, then maybe they would value their educations. If they had to pay for their own housing, they would have to work. If they had to pay for their own local government services they would quickly determine what they can afford and what they can't. Truly nonessential services would disappear, creating a focus on what is really needed. Which in reality is very little. The last lesson that city folks need to learn is the hardest. They need care for their own environment. This means cleaning their yards, sidewalks, and streets of trash, drug dealers and thugs. This means taking personal responsibility and not relying on government to do so.
“State and federal funds need to be eliminated from cities. The people that live in cities need to pay for things with their own money.”
Newark NJ just laid off hundreds of cops because fed & state funds dried up; Camden NJ is dropping its police force completely and replacing them with a some other kind of force (county?). The teachers’ unions are strong enough to hang on (at the expense of police & fire protection); the crime rates reflect those decisions...