Jul 16
2012
Allison Duwe interview
Executive director of Coalition for Economic Justice talks about low-wage jobs, wasteful subsidies and a lack of progressive sensibilities among most local and state politicians.
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Jul 16
2012
Executive director of Coalition for Economic Justice talks about low-wage jobs, wasteful subsidies and a lack of progressive sensibilities among most local and state politicians.
Jul 16
2012
Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed Allison Duwe, Executive Director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, on the plight of the 99%, corporate subsidies, and the aversion of local politicians to progressive policies. Duwe, in the interview that aired on WGRZ’s Sunday Daybreak, said: Western New York’s economic problems stem in part to too many residents working low-wage jobs and a concentration of the poor in the City of Buffalo. Adults, rather than teenagers, hold five of six minimum wage jobs. Economic subsidies across the state total about $3 billion a year and produce meager results. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $1 billion initiative[...]
Jul 8
2012
Niagara Falls mayor discusses Wallenda Walk, municipal corruption, green economic development and the region’s improving leadership. For those who do not know much abut Dyster, the interview is a good introduction to one of the region’s brightest elected officials.
Jul 8
2012
Investigative Post Editor Jim Heaney interviewed Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster on the impact of the Wallenda Walk, the numerous challenges faced by Niagara Falls, and how the standoff between state and Seneca Nation officials is costing the city money that would otherwise be helping to promote economic development. Dyster, in the interview that aired on WGRZ’s Daybreak Sunday, said: The city is studying statistics on television and web viewership of the Wallenda walk to determine where to focus marketing efforts to attract tourists and investors to Niagara Falls. Significant headway has been made to clean up corruption that has[...]
Jul 7
2012
Rather than pledging to improve what’s widely regarded as the city’s inept management of anti-poverty funds, Byron Brown vents about the agency that’s pressing for reform. A Buffalo News report following up on an Investigative Post/WGRZ story.
Jul 5
2012
Studies using crime stats show suburbs are safer than cities. But a new analysis shows that “when (auto) crashes are included in a measure of the danger of leaving home, many outer suburban and rural areas … are actually the most dangerous places to be,” reports Empire State Future.
Jul 4
2012
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, weary of longtime mismanagement of aid, get tough in face of ineptitude.
Jul 4
2012
Federal housing officials are tightening the screws on City Hall over its chronic mismanagement of anti-poverty funds. A series of critical reports and audits have documented problems dating back to the Griffin-era, but meaningful sanctions to this point have been few and far between. But the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is now moving on three fronts to force compliance from City Hall in how it spends about $18 million a year – three-quarters of it block grant aid that is the primary pool of money used to combat poverty in one of the nation’s poorest cities. HUD,[...]