“The people who are able to leave very often do so,” explained Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance on leaving his hometown of Middletown, […]
“They’re all on dope or they’re dying up here,” one Ohio woman says of men in a recent Atlantic piece, investigating the […]
On Tuesday, Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced the title of the forthcoming 2017-18 Go Big Read book, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family […]
Today, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Chancellor, Rebecca Blank, announced that the forthcoming 2017-2018 Go Big Read book is to […]
It is with much pride we share that this year’s Go Big Read text, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by UW […]
This past fall we shared that the Wisconsin School of Business’s direct admit LEAD course and the Go Big Read program had […]
On March 8, The Washington Post reported on considered budget cuts to HUD, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, within the yet […]
Street Pulse, Wisconsin’s Homeless/Marginalized Newspaper, recently reported exciting news surrounding Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 Executive Budget: the proposed state budget will include major […]
Last week, it was announced that Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City had won the distinguished Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in […]
For a background on the themes discussed in this article, check out Part I of this two part series on gentrification, Gentrification – Understanding […]