Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto

by Osha Gray Davidson

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0029070554

ISBN13:9780029070550

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Free Press

Length:206 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

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Agricultural Sciences Americas Engineering Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Rural Science & Math Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics Technology

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