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“The Model Cities Program was an element of U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty. In 1966, new legislation led to the more than 150 five-year-long, Model Cities experiments to develop new antipoverty programs and alternative forms of municipal government.
“The ambitious federal urban aid program succeeded in fostering a new generation of mostly black urban leaders. However, the nation moved to the right after the urban riots of the late 1960s. This led to a shift in goals to bricks and mortar housing and building projects. The program ended in 1974.”
So we have already in effect done the “Marshall Plan” for the cities. And here we are 50 years later, and inner cities are in the same sad conditions as before.
Could it be that money alone won’t solve these problems?
Slightly off topic, but Baltimore has the same problems in their schools as all big cities. But I heard that Baltimore spends much more per capita than the national average on education.
So, if we pick on an area such as schools to improve in the inner city, where some cities already spend much more than average, what would more money really do in such cases????