When I said “infrastructure,” I meant businesses and the type of people who maintain businesses. Economic infrastructure. Social infratructure.
Newark was once an industrial powerhouse — the riots in the 1960s only partially ended that — what really killed it was the off-shoring of jobs.
Go to the midwest or the Northwest and you’ll see entire communities that have emptied out, except for the old timers. It began with the affluent and country club class sending their kids off to college to never return and migrated down to the merchant class with the advent of wal-mart. That left a lot of rural ghettos with trailer parks instead of projects and meth instead of crack cocaine.
These communities are also tapped out in the way of taxes. They can’t afford a decent school system. It’s an economic impossibility.
In regards to what’s important is what they are taught — just who is going to teach them? They can’t afford decent teachers. Only a moron or a saint would teach for $25,000 a year.
Again they get MORE federal money.