Who Killed New York City?

New York City’s financial crisis has been a tragedy for many Americans who never travel east of the Hudson River. Wherever public employees demand a living wage, women’s groups demand day-care facilities for children, poor people demand adequate health care, or working-class students demand affordable college tuitions, they run head-on into the charge of New York City’s profligacy. No longer need the opponents of public services argue their point of view on its merits; they ...