TY - BOOK AU - Davidson,Osha Gray TI - Broken heartland: the rise of America's rural ghetto SN - 1587290413 AV - HN59.2 .D35 1996eb U1 - 307.3/366/0973 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Rural poor KW - United States KW - Farmers KW - Social conditions KW - Pauvres en milieu rural KW - États-Unis KW - Agriculteurs KW - Conditions sociales KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General KW - fast KW - Rural conditions KW - Armut KW - gnd KW - Ländlicher Raum KW - Sociology & Social History KW - hilcc KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Conditions KW - Desenvolvimento rural KW - Estados unidos KW - larpcal KW - Pobreza rural KW - Campesinato (condições sociais) KW - 1980-2020 KW - USA KW - swd KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index; Decline and denial -- Roots of the farm crisis -- The rise of the rural ghetto -- Poverty and social disintegration -- The dying of the light -- The growth of hate groups -- The second wave -- What future, what hope?; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the dec UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21969 ER -