Hollowing Out the Middle: Why America's Small Towns Are Dying and What Can Be Done to Save Them - Hardcover
Watch the book trailer for Hollowing Out the Middle Startling research shows that small townsâ from Maine to Missouriâ are in jeopardy from exporting their most precious resource: young people A Midwest Connections Pick In 2001, the MacArthur Foundation dispatched sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas to a small town in Iowa to chronicle the exodus of young people from Americaâ s countryside and to understand the process of the rural brain drain. One in five Americans, nearly sixty million people, live in small towns, and the rate at which young people are permanently leaving has grave local and national repercussions. Carr and Kefalas follow the trajectories of college-bound â Achieversâ ; working-class â Stayers,â trapped in a regionâ s dying agro-industrial economy; â Seekers,â who join the military as a way out; and â Returners,â who eventually circle back to their hometowns. Surprisingly, the authors find that adults in a community play a pivotal part in their townâ s decline by pushing away â the best and brightestâ and underinvesting in those who choose to stay. The emptying out of small towns is a nationwide concern, but there are strategies for arresting the process and creating sustainable, thriving communities. Hollowing Out the Middle is a wake- up call we canâ t afford to ignore.
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Patrick J. Carr is assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and Maria J. Kefalas is associate professor of sociology at Saint Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania. The authors, who have three published books between them, live outside Philadelphia.
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Text: English, Swedish (translation)
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- PublisherBeacon Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0807041718
- ISBN 13 9780807041710
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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