Power Line Daily Digest - What really ails our cites What really ails our cites Fidel Castro: Greediest Tyrant In World History? Bubbaships and Double Standards* Jerry Brown hot and cold "Clinton Cash": Disputations What really ails our cites Posted: 10 May 2015 02:23 PM PDT (Paul Mirengoff) My impression is that Baltimore was particularly hard hit by the last recession and hasn't really recovered. But, as I have argued , this doesn't mean that cities hit less hard are immune from the kind of rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray. Colbert King of the Washington Post makes this point. He contends that Washington, D.C., which is nearly recession-proof, shares the same basic ills as Baltimore, and thus could easily erupt. What are the "ills" King identifies as common to Baltimore and Washington? Relying on figures from Peter Tatian of the Urban Institute, King cites the following: Births to teen mothers; famil...
