Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto

by Osha Gray Davidson

Book Overview

Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029070554
• ISBN13: 9780029070550
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.