ABSTRACT
During the height of the contested 2008 presidential primaries, the New York Times (2008) carried a lead editorial entitled, “In Search of a Real Urban Policy,” that was a critique of the lack of dialogue and policy proposals for urban America:
But as important as rural problems are, they’re not nearly as big as the task of helping the nation’s struggling cities – where most Americans live or work. The cities have been the hardest hit as federal policies have failed or gone missing in education, housing, health care, jobs, transportation and environment, to name a few. Yet urban issues have gotten scant attention in this campaign.
