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+Cities empirically proven to cut jobs, halt infrastructure spending, and increase other costs when their budgets are hit. Currently, we are in a state of growth, but the economic situation remains fragile and highly sensitive to changes. |
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+NLC 12 (National League of Cities, “Cities Continue to Cut Jobs and Infrastructure in Face of Recession’s Impact”, http://www.nlc.org/media-center/news-search/cities-continue-to-cut-jobs-and-infrastructure-in-face-of-recessions-impacts, EmmieeM) |
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+Washington, DC - Cities continue to face the prolonged effects of the economic downturn |
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+AND |
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+College, has helped conduct the survey and author the report since 1991. |
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+Limiting qualified immunity leads to a massive increase in costly court cases |
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+Noll 8’ |
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+Noll, David L. "Qualified Immunity in Limbo: Rights, Procedure, and the Social Costs of Damages Litigation Against Public Officials." NYUL Rev. 83 (2008): 911 |
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+In the context of ordinary civil litigation between two private parties, the total ( |
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+AND |
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+and has undoubtedly affected the development of the modern qualified immunity doctrine.53 |
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+Costs from court cases are financed by city pay-out ~-~-- impact is hyper-charged due to the rising costs of court cases |
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+Elinson and Frosch 15 (Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch – Wall Street Journal, “Cost of Police Misconduct Cases Sours in Big U.S. Cities”, http://www.wsj.com/articles/cost-of-police-misconduct-cases-soars-in-big-u-s-cities-1437013834, EmmieeM) |
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+The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases has surged for big U.S |
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+AND |
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+for Houston, Phoenix and Miami-Dade, a county police department. |
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+Growth in cities is crucial to the economic stability of the U.S. – growth zones, stability, attractiveness of foreign capital, and technological advancement makes U.S. mega-cities carry 30 of US GDP |
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+Khanna 16 (Parag Khanna – Senior Research Fellow/Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the University of Singapore, “How Much Economic Growth Comes From Our Ciites?”, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/how-much-economic-growth-comes-from-our-cities/, EmmieeM) |
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+Cities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires |
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+AND |
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+by Texas Central Railway and the bullet-train operator Central Japan Railway. |
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+Economic decline causes multiple war scenarios – the impact is extinction |
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+Harris and Burrows - 2009 (Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, Member at the National Intelligence Council - Mathew J. Burrows, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World—an unclassified report by the NIC published every four years that projects trends over a 15-year period, has served in the Central Intelligence Agency since 1986, holds a Ph.D. in European History from Cambridge University, and Jennifer Harris, Member of the Long Range Analysis Unit at the National Intelligence Council, holds an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale University, 2009 (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis,” The Washington Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, April, Available Online at http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf, Accessed 08-22-2011, p. 35-37) |
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+Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is |
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+AND |
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+within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world. |
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+Recessions disproportionately affect people of color – Asians, Hispanics, and Black people are more likely to lose their jobs |
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+Reidenbach and Weller 10 (Luke Reidenbach and Christian Weller – Center for American Progress, “The State of Minorities in the Economy”, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/reports/2010/01/15/7131/the-state-of-minorities-in-the-economy/, EmmieeM) |
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+The recession that began at the end of 2007 has produced enormous hardships for households |
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+AND |
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+a faster annual rate for African Americans and Hispanics than for other groups. |
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+ Both African Americans and Hispanics’ unemployment rates increased an average 3.6 percentage |
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+AND |
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+differences in unemployment rates by race and ethnicity persisted through the entire decade. |
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+Queer people are affected harder by economic downturn – they’re more likely to already be living in extreme poverty and have a more difficult time accessing social mobility |
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+Murray 16 (Laura Murray – Fusion, new source, “The Troubling Reality We Ignore About Queer Twentysomethings”, http://fusion.net/story/273915/poor-queer-millennials/, EmmieeM) |
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+Tamara Williams knew her mother wasn’t comfortable with having a transgender child when the wigs |
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+AND |
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+four times more likely to live in extreme poverty compared to the general population |
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+. “My family lives below the poverty line,” says Cleo Anderson. “ |
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+on a façade,” she says. “I’m feeling unapologetic these days. |