detroit

During the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy, the state-appointed administrator sought to cut pension payments for thousands of retired city workers in violation of Michigan’s state constitution. 

DPS has operated its school system using a top-down, bureaucrat-run model for decades. Under this structure, teachers are protected with outdated tenure rules and rewarded for the amount of time they work in the system, rather than for performance. Innovation is scarce, and administrators, who often enjoy exorbitant salaries, are not encouraged to make the sort of radical changes that are needed to turn the city’s schools around.

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.

Frequently, humans need lessons to be very expensive in order to learn them — for politicians and liberals, that seems to be doubly true.

I cringe every time I hear a politician or pundit talk about how a certain policy will create or destroy jobs. Yes, I get why it’s done; the unemployment rate…

In “Paul Krugman and Detroit, Part 1” I discussed the New York Times columnist’s failure to understand why Detroit currently resembles the United States in Atlas Shrugged. But Krugman’s error…

Detroit is not some foreign country. It is part of our country. And, it is where we are all going unless we reject the culture of dependency and revive the culture of self-responsibility.

The much bigger problem facing America is that the policies of Detroit have now gone national. What day has Barack Obama talked about the economy when he has not talked about increasing taxes, federal spending, deficits and debt, regulation, and other anti-growth policies that worked their devastation in Detroit?

The evidence is characterized as “job sprawl”

Detroit’s bankruptcy filing is the epitaph on decades of failed city government policies that brought a great metropolis to its knees.

The president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) wants substitute teachers to, basically, stop teaching. He’s instructing them to do the bare minimum required of them–no writing of lesson…