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Stuck: How The Privileged And The Propertied Broke The Engine Of American Opportunity
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How Did America Cease To Be The Land Of Opportunity?Longlisted For The Porchlight Business Book Awardwe Take It For Granted That Good NeighborhoodsWith Good Schools And Good HousingAre Only Accessible To The Wealthy. But In America, This WasnT Always The Case.Though For Most Of World History, Your Prospects Were Tied To Where You Were Born, Americans Came Up With A Revolutionary Idea: If You DidnT Like Your Lot In Life, You Could Find A Better Location And Reinvent Yourself There. Americans Moved To New Places With Unprecedented Frequency, And, For Two Hundred Years, That Remarkable Mobility Was The Linchpin Of American Economic And Social Opportunity.In This Illuminating Debut, Yoni Appelbaum, Historian And Journalist For The Atlantic, Shows Us That This Idea Has Been Under Attack Since Reformers First Developed Zoning Laws To Ghettoize Chinese Americans In NineteenthCentury Modesto, California. The Century Of Legal Segregation That EnsuedFrom The Zoning Laws Enacted To Force Jewish Workers Back Into New YorkS Lower East Side To The PrivateSector Discrimination And Racist Public Policy That Trapped Black Families In Flint, Michigan To Jane Jacobs Efforts To Protect Her Vision Of The West VillageHas Raised Housing Prices, Deepened Political Divides, Emboldened Bigots, And Trapped Generations Of People In Poverty. Appelbaum Shows Us That These Problems Have A Common Explanation: People CanT Move As Readily As They Used To. They Are, In A Word, Stuck.Cutting Through More Than A Century Of Mythmaking, Stuck Tells A Vivid, Surprising Story Of The People And Ideas That Caused Our Economic And Social Sclerosis And Lays Out CommonSense Ways To Get Americans Moving Again.
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