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1111 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90015 United States

June 2023

2023 Zócalo Book Prize: How Does a Community Save Itself?

Jun 15 • 7:00 pm PDT
ASU California Center, 1111 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90015 United States
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America’s high-poverty cities and counties have suffered for decades, enduring skyrocketing inequality, the opioid epidemic, rising housing costs, and widespread disinvestment. Governments have offered a variety of failed solutions, from luring wealthy outsiders to slashing public services. But four communities are turning inward instead: Stockton, California; rural Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michigan. In these diverse places—all of which went broke in the wake of the Great Recession—locals are building networks and trust in one another and their…

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