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020    1501195980|q(hardcover) 
020    9781501195983|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1259049898 
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100 1  Anderson, Michelle W.,|eauthor. 
245 14 The fight to save the town :|breimagining discarded 
       America /|cMichelle Wilde Anderson. 
250    First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition 
264  1 New York :|bAvid Reader Press,|c2022. 
300    vii, 352 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages (261-338) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction: "Aren't we the government?" -- "I won't give
       up on you, ever": Stockton, California -- Man in the arena
       : Josephine county, Oregon -- "Marching, marching, in the 
       beauty of the day": Lawrence Massachusetts -- Do not bid: 
       Detroit, Michigan -- Facing forward.  
520    Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising 
       concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on 
       communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of 
       these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, 
       small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others 
       red. Some are the most diverse communities in America, 
       while others are nearly all white, all Latino, or all 
       Black. All are routinely trashed by outsiders for their 
       poverty and their politics. Mostly, their governments are 
       just broke. Forty years after the anti-tax revolution 
       began protecting wealthy taxpayers and their cities, our 
       high-poverty cities and counties have run out of services 
       to cut, properties to sell, bills to defer, and risky 
       loans to take. In The Fight to Save the Town, urban law 
       expert and author Michelle Wilde Anderson offers unsparing,
       humanistic portraits of the hardships left behind in four 
       such places. But this book is not a eulogy or a lament. 
       Instead, Anderson travels to four blue-collar communities 
       that are poor, broke, and progressing. Networks of leaders
       and residents in these places are facing down some of the 
       hardest challenges in American poverty today. In Stockton,
       California, locals are finding ways, beyond the police 
       department, to reduce gun violence and treat the trauma it
       leaves behind. In Josephine County, Oregon, community 
       leaders have enacted new taxes to support basic services 
       in a rural area with fiercely anti-government politics. In
       Lawrence, Massachusetts, leaders are figuring out how to 
       improve job security and wages in an era of backbreaking 
       poverty for the working class. And a social movement in 
       Detroit, Michigan is pioneering ways to stabilize low-
       income housing after a wave of foreclosures and housing 
       loss. Our smallest governments shape people's safety, 
       comfort, and life chances. For decades, these governments 
       have no longer just reflected inequality--they have helped
       drive it. But it doesn't have to be that way. Anderson 
       argues that a new generation of local leaders are figuring
       out how to turn poverty traps back into gateway cities. 
650  0 Municipal services|zUnited States. 
650  0 Local government|zUnited States. 
650  0 Poverty|zUnited States. 
650  0 Social problems|xGovernment policy|zUnited States. 
650  7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Local government.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01001300 
650  7 Municipal services.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01029431 
650  7 Poverty.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01074093 
650  7 Social problems|xGovernment policy.|2fast
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651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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