marketplace.org/topics/tech/silicon-valley-comes-oakland “Its tokenism. Its marketing. Its public relations, says Olis Simmons, the chief executive officer of Youth Uprising, a community center in Oakland. Simmons says what the city really needs is serious investments in schools and social services. Unemployment hovers around twenty percent in her neighborhood, and the school next door still doesnt have reliable high-speed internet. “The truth is,” she says, “if you dont invest, then over the long haul, what you do is you transfer ownership of your city to a group of people that are new.”
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 02:54:23 +0000
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