{"id":954,"date":"2009-10-21T15:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-10-21T15:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T15:26:05","slug":"american-urban-cores-and-third-world-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"American urban cores and Third World plight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Steve Flood who teaches a Logic Class at Notre Dame University. \u00a0 He asked me about our platform in regard to reversing the decaying inner city urban cores of America. \u00a0 I said the crux of the strategies revolve around mobilizing as much social justice help as possible to these areas, including inspiring many suburban and small town Americans to move back into the cities to help (as we did in Cleveland). \u00a0 Steve told me he&#8217;d done some outreach work on the west side of Chicago and explained the <em>Christian Community Development Association<\/em> is involved with similar initiatives&#8230; \u00a0 I also talked with a student from Notre Dame who is just recently back from a service trip to Tanzania. \u00a0 He said what Tanzania really needs is debt relief, help with sustainable agriculture projects, and a better education system. \u00a0 Our administration would work stridently to help Tanzania (and all Third World countries) to attain these&#8230; \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> To help with agriculture and education we propose (among a number of things) a tremendous expansion of the Peace Corps. \u00a0 There are currently about 12,000 people serving in the Peace Corps. \u00a0 We believe it should be 100 times that, and would propose more incentives for Americans to join the Peace Corps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked with Steve Flood who teaches a Logic Class at Notre Dame University. \u00a0 He asked me about our platform in regard to reversing the decaying inner city urban cores of America. \u00a0 I said the crux of the <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=954\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}