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"Essential...in showcasing people who are persistent, clever, flawed, loving, struggling and full of contradictions, Broke affirms why its worth solving the hardest problems in our most challenging cities in the first place. " Anna Clark, The New York Times"Through indepth reporting of structural inequality as it affects real people in Detroit, Jodie Adams Kirshner's Broke examines one side of the economic divide in America" Salon"What Broke really tells us is how systems of government, law and finance can crush even the hardiest of bootstrap pullers." Brian Alexander, author of Glass HouseA galvanizing, narrative account of a citys bankruptcy and its aftermath told through the lives of seven valiantly struggling DetroitersBankruptcy and the austerity it represents have become a common "solution" for struggling American cities. What do the spending cuts and limited resources do to the lives of city residents? In Broke, Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven Detroiters as they navigate life during and after their city's bankruptcy. Reggie loses his savings trying to make a habitable home for his family. Cindy fights drug use, prostitution, and dumping on her block. Lola commutes two hours a day to her suburban job. For them, financial issues are mired within the larger ramifications of poor urban policies, restorative negligence on the state and federal level andeven before the decision to declare Detroit bankrupt in 2013the root causes of a citys fiscal demise.Like Matthew Desmonds Evicted, Broke looks at what municipal distress means, not just on paper but in practicaland personalterms. More than 40 percent of Detroits 700,000 residents fall below the poverty line. Postbankruptcy, they struggle with a broken real estate market, school system, and job marketand their lives have not improved.Detroit is emblematic. Kirshner makes a powerful argument that citiesthe economic engine of Americaare never quite given the aid that they need by either the state or federal government for their residents to survive, not to mention flourish. Success for all Americas citizens depends on equity of opportunity.
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