Reading Post Week Ten

  • Due Jun 4, 2021 by 11:59pm
  • Points 5
  • Submitting a text entry box or a file upload

Please post a 500-700 word response to this week's reading assignment. Below are some questions I pose as prompts for this reflection; you do not need to answer all of them, but may choose one as a starting point for your post. This is more than merely a reading summary, but should be a substantive, thought-provoking comment that considers and cites specific examples from the reading to make your point.  You may also use your post to home in on other issues in the reading that you find particularly interesting and provocative.

READING:

1) Nelson Lichtenstein, “Wal-Mart’s Tale of Two Cities”
2) A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, “Latino Landscapes”
3) Left Behind America  (PBS Frontline, 2018) (53 minutes) 

QUESTIONS:

How did the movement of people and goods around the globe in new networks of economic globalization and immigration alter the American economic landscape after 2000? What public policy choices seem to have been critical to this change? How did immigration change the economic trajectory of American cities? When politicians promise to "bring jobs back" to the US, what kinds of jobs do they mean, and how might that be possible? Is it possible at all?

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