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Bettmann / Getty What Is the 'Success Sequence' and Why Do So Many Conservatives Like It?
A common prescription for getting out of poverty ignores the obstacles individual effort can’t always overcome.
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David Ryder / Getty The Problem With Courting Amazon
When cities compete to attract big employers, the country as a whole suffers.
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Brynn Anderson / AP America's Rural Hospitals Are Dangerously Fragile
Consolidation in the health-care industry is threatening small and independent hospitals and the communities they're in.
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John Moore / Getty What America Is Losing as Its Small Towns Struggle
To erode small-town culture is to erode the culture of the nation.
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John Moore / Getty When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis
Some shareholders of a major drug distributor are arguing that the company's goals should be more in line with society's.
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Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty When Prisoners Are a 'Revenue Opportunity'
As jails install systems that let inmates videochat with "visitors" no matter where they may be, it’s private companies that appear to have the most to gain.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Privatization Is Changing America's Relationship With Its Physical Stuff
Turning more and more infrastructure projects over to outside companies makes citizens more like customers.
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Spencer Platt / Getty If Declining Towns 'Deserve to Die,' Where Should Their Residents Go?
Some economists and pundits claim Americans aren’t moving enough, but how people should respond to that is unclear.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Ghost Bosses
Private-equity firms have been rapidly buying and selling off companies for decades, and workers in Lancaster, Ohio, are living with the consequences.
