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U.S. Census data shows that while jobs boom in North Dallas, Texas, the poor who are concentrated in South Dallas can’t get to where new companies need workers. Progressives conclude it’s a free-market failure to geographically allocate jobs where they’re needed, a phenomenon they dub “spatial inequality” and “job sprawl.”
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20 replies on “Spatial Inequality: Jobs Boom in North Dallas, Unemployed Hardest Hit”
One of the many key incentives of a business choosing to move to any specific location, is to tap a pool of underemployed, available and properly qualified potential employees. They typically put a whole lot of study into the site and overall location equation, and then pick what will work best for them. To do it any other way, would likely mean that the business would not do well and the jobs would then go away again. So it is critical for the business, and the potential employees alike, that the business select the best location based on the whole spectrum of key parameters, while drawing their employees from within a reasonable range of commute distances.
What happened to moving to where the work is? I have gone from working in the woods during summer and fall to heading down to south California to do construction work during winter and spring.
Have hitchhiked from north Ca. to Los Angeles to get on a hiring list for Ca.’s state parks, which produced a job at the Anza Borrego DSP.Loaded up the pickup truck and moved, and was happy about it.
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As a guy who grew up in south Dallas in the 60s and 70s, my perspective is that south Dallas used to be a very nice place, especially in the 60s. In the 70s, with the advent of busing and integration, things became harder. There was a definite “white flight” out of south Dallas in the 70s, combined with an increasing urban sprawl. I went to David W. Carter high school. In 1973 I could look out of the high schools front windows and see nothing to the south but farms and fields. I used to hunt across the street from high school because that was “in the country.” By the 1980s nothing of the farms, fields, forest and ponds were left. Urban sprawl had covered them and it was unbroken city that made the gaps between the previously separate communities of DeSoto, Duncanville and Cedar Hill nonexistent. This happened all over the city to some degree; where Dallas used to be 20 miles wide, now the Metroplex stretches for a hundred miles in all directions. While it would be easy to blame the poorness that has since hit the south Dallas area on racial things, that is lazy. Dallas has always had a variety of ethnicities. The reasons are cultural, not racial, and its the culture of the poor inner city versus the culture of the wealthier suburbs. One culture values the street and its activities like drugs and low-rent housing, the other values wealth and good neighborhoods. Pick the culture you want. Poor culture ruined south Dallas, not the races involved.
So what is the conservative answer to the jobs being in North Dallas. It is basically what we in the military termed “tango sierra.” Go where the jobs are. You must go to them, they are not coming to you. Duh.
I worked for two years in Maryland at a DoE facility. One of our chief engineers lived in his camper (in the parking lot) Monday through Friday. He drove to his home in West Virginia on Friday night and back on Sunday night.
He did what he had to do.
To paraphrase Sam Kinison: “Move to where the jobs are!”
Literally every corporation here in South Korea (optionally) supplies bus transportation for all it’s shift workers. They love it.
Scott’s idea for a business run bus line is something our Senator Johnson (R-WI) has been doing here. It might be a partial public/private partnership but if so I think it leans heavily private.
There were a number of businesses outside the city of Milwaukee that needed workers and plenty in the City that needed work and the buses would provide transportation where a regular bus line with on-the-hour departures just did not make sense.
I think he got some of the same “standing up for the poor” slavemasters criticizing the effort because of how long the people had to ride the bus and being away from home so much of the day and all the rest. As far as I know they pretty much were ignored because the people on the buses were happy to have jobs, be working and making money.
“Patriarchal system” – well played, Scott! #SmashThePatriarchy
Thank you for such a clear-eyed articulate discussion. I am SO sick of hearing the “poor victim” spiel. Don’t ever let anyone take responsibility for their own actions and decisions, don’t ever let anyone grow up, expect everyone else to do and think and act for you. Then whine and complain, moan and gripe and show total ingratitude for all that you have been given. We are long overdue for the restating of maturity, accountability, reason, and common sense as it was so well-presented here. And Scott, I don’t know your brothers but you, my friend, are adorable.
Where I lived in Denver, we had to commute 45 minutes to north of Boulder from Arvada Colorado to get a job at IBM. We didn’t worry about how far it was, we just knew we had to do it to get the job.
The city of Portland offered up some property to any private business that would bring jobs to a distressed neighborhood. Trader Joe’s stepped up with a plan, but local leaders of color rejected TJ’s plan stating that: “the people that accepted the new good jobs would move away as soon as possible and not help the neighborhood’s jobless problem.
The other problem is crime. Memphis leaders are trying to bring grocery stores back into poverty stricken areas but few are willing to come because of the high cost of security. Shoplifting is rampant and kills business
The racist concept of low expectations will now be known as, you know, “That thing.”
Our society has been stricken by a cancer that has really taken over. That is negativism, ANYBODY that can take the fact that there are jobs available and people can make a good living if that are even slightly motivated and turn it into a negative, needs to be isolated and ignored.
I’ve seen plenty of examples of spatial inequality, but it was always between people’s ears.
Nice! Thanks for the laugh out loud.
Your brothers are smarter and more handsome than you? I don’t see how that’s possible, Scott.
All of the people who are unwilling to commute to the work are fundamentally unqualified for the work.
Are there any people unwilling to commute or only activists outraged on their behalf?
Well stated! The activist outrage mob is completely deranged.
Basic leftist misunderstanding , they seem to think the purpose of companies Is to provide jobs for people.