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Hardcover Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto Book

ISBN: 0029070554

ISBN13: 9780029070550

Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto

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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...

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