Professor Luke Shaefer’s newest ebook, “The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America,” is now out there. Collectively together with his co-authors, Shaefer checked out poverty, mixed with well being outcomes and social mobility charges to look at America’s most deprived communities — nearly all of that are rural, and are concentrated in three areas: Appalachia, South Texas, and the southern Cotton Belt.
“All through these areas, we noticed the identical themes emerge repeatedly—unequal education, the collapse of social infrastructure, violence, entrenched public corruption, and structural racism embedded in authorities packages,” writes Shaefer.
An essay tailored from the ebook is featured in The Atlantic. The ebook has additionally obtained opinions and impressed tales from main media, together with:
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