• Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on Rural America

  • Jan 11 2024
  • Length: 53 mins
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  • Many urban Americans have come to believe that there’s a growing chasm separating urban and rural America. While urban America bounds ahead, rural America, many assume, is being left behind, struggling with material and spiritual impoverishment, and cultural confusion.

    This week on Hardly Working, Brent talks with University of Southern California professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, who dispels some of the myths about the so-called urban-rural divide. Currid-Halkett and Brent discuss her fantastic book The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What it Means For Our Country, which Brent reviewed for the Dispatch in September. As you’ll hear, rural America is doing a lot better than you might think.

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    Jane Jacobs

    University of Chicago General Social Survey

    Raj Chetty

    Posse Foundation

    American Exchange Project

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