Youngstown 49.7% poverty rate - highest in the nation

[JR_C]

Originally Posted by BelieveInCleve

Nice, so did you actually have to walk around your neighborhood and go look at each house to give it a grade? Did you go inside them?

And I remember hearing about them knocking down like 20 vacant houses in 1 neighborhood after a couple was killed near a church I believe, this was recent within the last few years. Arson is also a huge problem in Youngstown, it actually has the highest arson rate in the entire country. Very sad situation in Y-Town.

Groups of volunteers were given neighborhoods to survey. (when I participated, it was winter, so I wrote while the other volunteer drove her car) We had 2 tasks: determine what houses were vacant, (even if they were obviously for sale, or between renters, they were still counted) and give a grade on condition based only on what we saw from the street.

You're thinking of "operation redemption" where 25 houses were demolished.

Arson is a problem. Not only are there bored kids, and scrappers, there are those unstable people who think they are doing the city a favor by burning down houses.

[Hooly Big Chuck]

Ohio is on the brink of a major economic turnaround dues to natural gas and oil exploration.

Manufacturing jobs left Ohio because of the global search for the lowest wage structure. Workers in China make $1 an hour or less. Auto workers in Mexico make $3 an hour. Workers in Central America and Southeast Asia make about 1/3 the wages of Mexico and China , respectively.

Former GE CEO, Jack Welch, once said that his idea of manufacturing was to put a factory on a barge and move it from country to country to find the lowest wages. BTW, Jack's last year of pay at GE amounted to $73 million. Also, BTW, GE has shut down several plants in the Youngstown area.