DC by the Numbers - Softcover

Edmonds, Thomas N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819198226 ISBN 13: 9780819198228

Publisher: University Press of America, 1995

Synopsis

This work takes a statistical approach to the question of the District of Columbia's statehood, and details hundreds of indicators of the state's ill-health. The book is a strong condemnation of the District's leadership and its history of home rule.

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From the Back Cover

The failure of Washington, D.C.'s city government is manifest in the daily lives of the District's residents. However, being able to fully understand the depths to which D.C. has sunk remains a challenge. Statistics have been difficult to find, littered among a host of diverse reports from a wide array of sources. Now, for the first time, the indisputable truth has been compiled in one place for all see - in D.C. By the Numbers: A State of Failure. Authors/researchers Thomas N. Edmonds and Raymond J. Keating have compared the nation's capital to its peers, other leading cities, and its would-be peers, all 50 states, in over 200 measurements. From SAT scores to out-of-wedlock births, from police expenditures to violent crime, from individual and corporate tax rates to assistance from the federal government, the tragic story is all here in black and white. D.C. By the Numbers: A State of Failure presents the facts. Despite contrary claims by many D.C. politicians, the conclusion is undeniable: Gross mismanagement and a misguided faith in big government are destroying our nation's capital.

About the Author

Raymond J. Keating and Thomas N. Edmonds are th authors of D.C. by the Numbers: A State of Failure and Keating's second books, New York by the Numbers: State and City in Perpetual Crisis. Mr. Keating, who lives in New York, is a weekly columnist with Newsday and serves as chief economist for the Washington, DC-based Small Business Survival Committee. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, and the Washington Post. Mr. Edmonds is a nationally recognized Washington, DC political consultant and past president of the 1,000-member, bipartisan, American Association of Political Consultants.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0819198226
• ISBN 13: 9780819198228
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 276