A Tulsa police captain sues over his assignment to provide security at a mosque. Gotham partner, David Schwartz gives his legal analysis of the suit’s merits on Fox News Channel.
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David Schwartz on David Paterson Show – Outrageous!
David Schwartz joins former New York governor David Paterson and gives his very strongly-worded take on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policies. Listen here…
David Schwartz: Wal-Mart's Low-Price Promise: The Changing Face of Poverty
Gotham’s David Schwartz editorial on the effects of Wal-Mart in the Bayside Brooklyn Patch:
As a small business advocate, I have witnessed worrisome changes in the business arena, but recent poverty projections for the United States, especially when accompanied by past data, are disturbing – particularly because one of the primary driving forces of this trend shows no intention of curbing its carcinogenic market structure.
In fact, it is quietly lobbying for entry in Willets Point and East New York.
While the public awaits the grimly projected 2011 poverty statistics due to be released this fall, The Associated Press asked experts to comment on the issue. If their estimations are correct, roughly 50 years of the War on Poverty could unravel at America’s feet.
According to the surveyed think-tanks, economists and other academics, the poverty level could reach as high as 15.7 percent, but a 0.1 percent increase alone could bring America back to the 1960s. In 2009, the Census Bureau reported the largest number of people living in poverty ever recorded: 43.6 million. Statistics such as these leave individuals like myself wondering how the United States ended up on such a path.
Little did America know that the face of poverty is both ever-changing and currently routed in the low-price promise, the very same promise that Wal-Mart is offering to New York and its developers…
Video: David Schwartz on Kerry Kennedy Crash
Attorney David Schwartz on Fox 5 NY talking about Kerry Kennedy auto accident.