Rochester school board member Willa Powell submitted the following prior to Governor Cuomo’s 2013 State of State address this afternoon. Today, Governor Cuomo delivers his State of the State address. Among other points, I expect he will talk about the difficult fiscal conditions that continue to plague NY in the aftermath of The Great Recession, […]
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Wealth disparity and our graduation rate
Not long ago, published research demonstrated that countries that had a high disparity between wealth and poverty were also characterized by low confidence in their government and contempt for the law. There is a justifiable assumption that the government is corrupt, serving the elite while either actively suppressing the poor or failing to use the […]
