Olivia Weeks is a contributor to The Daily Yonder from West Frankfort, Illinois.
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Rural America
The 40-Year Robbing of Rural America
Since the 1980s, says Professor Marc Edelman, financial capital has developed imaginative new ways to seize assets from small towns and rural areas.
Olivia Weeks