disinvestment

“The best way to solve the vexing problems of poverty, racism, and disinvestment is not by providing market-based microsolutions,” she pointed out.

It is a stab at reversing decades of disinvestment in rural communities, and a model for creating jobs in often-overlooked pockets of the country.

For a while many businesses made good money trading with South Africa, but the injustice of apartheid attracted global condemnation and UN sanctions which forced disinvestment and, eventually, helped to end the apartheid regime.

In this part of South L.A., park space is egregiously scarce, a remnant of redlining and disinvestment.

“However, I must emphasize that the CSU’s budget challenges remain — challenges exacerbated by real and potential federal disinvestment in higher education, “ she said.