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Article: Rural poverty in America.
- Article from:
- National Forum
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Visual images help us understand complex realities. Think of poverty in America like this: You are staring down on a huge moonscape cratered by meteors. Around each crater is a high rim. Stretching away from the rims is a vast plain. The craters represent the nation's inner cities. The plain represents rural America, in many ways the most complex vista. The rims represent the nation's suburbs.
Overlooking the depressing craters in one direction and the broad plain in the other, the rims afford an ideal place for most middle-class Americans to live. They can choose to see or ignore what lies just beyond them, but more and more of them live insecurely, worried about ...