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Featured Discussion: Where We Are
Princeton University sociologists Kathryn Edin and Timothy Nelson have spent years trying to understand poverty and why families, generation after generation, can’t escape it. Their new book, The Injustice of Place, is about the country’s most disadvantaged communities. Edin, Nelson (and their co-author Luke Schaefer) explore how these communities have been exploited and abandoned by powerful industry. Left are towns struggling with violence, unemployment, addiction, and a loss of person-to-person connection. Edin and Nelson will discuss their research and findings.