As I’ve stated on the grave series, I spent the last week in the lower Midwest, specifically Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. I am going to have a series of posts discussing my time the
The questions around economic development in rural America are deeply complex. A few facts. First, rural America has been in a decades-long economic and population decline. In some areas, such as the
This profile of how Dollar General fills the shopping niche of the nation’s permanent rural underclass should be sobering. Dollar General’s sales per square foot have risen steadily in recent
Michelle Wilde Anderson has an outstanding essay that discusses how Trump and Republicans are returning to the “rule of capture” to fleece poor rural communities out of the natural resourc
