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The 40-Year Robbing of Rural America

Olivia Weeks In These Times
Since the 1980s, says Professor Marc Edelman, financial capital has developed imaginative new ways to seize assets from small towns and rural areas.

Wall Street Helped Create Jackson’s Water Crisis

Matthew Cunningham-Cook & Ricardo Gomez The Lever
A major credit rating agency jacked up interest rates in Jackson, Mississippi, curtailing infrastructure investments in the years leading up to the city’s recent disaster.

Grassroots Voices: How We Won Georgia

Linda Burnham Portside
Georgia was the epicenter of the struggle for political power in 2020 and is again a central player in 2022, with races for governor and U.S. Senate up for grabs. Here are the perspectives of four leaders in the organizing efforts that won Georgia.
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