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New edition of a classic. Three distinguished scholars challenge us to put the urban crisis back on the national agenda, both as a moral challenge to our conscience and an economic challenge to America's prosperity and our families' pocketbooks. Focusing on the growing concentration of poverty... read more
First Sentence
In the mid-1980s, Arietta Bronaugh and Dwight Jackson and their two children moved from Altgeld Gardens, a 1,500-apartment public housing project in Chicago's inner city, to the leafy, affluent suburb of Hoffman Estates fifty-five miles away.1
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- Peter Dreier (Author)
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