Title: Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0807042382
ISBN 13: 9780807042380
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young people from America’s countryside. They met and followed working-class ";stayers";; ambitious and college-bound ";achievers";; ";seekers,"; who head off to war to see what the world beyond offers; and ";returners,"; who eventually circle back to their hometowns. What surprised them most was that adults in the community were playing a pivotal part in the town’s decline by pushing the best and brightest young people to leave.In a timely, new afterword, Carr and Kefalas address the question ";so what can be done to save our communities?"; They profile the efforts of dedicated community leaders actively resisting the hollowing out of Middle America. These individuals have creatively engaged small town youth��stayers and returners, seekers and

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Patrick J. Carr is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and the author of Clean Streets. Maria J. Kefalas is a professor of sociology at Saint Joseph’s University, the author of Working-Class Heroes, and coauthor of Promises I Can Keep. The authors live outside Philadelphia.

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