The Stockton Syndrome: Connecting poverty of people and poverty of local governments
If California wants to curb poverty, its local governments must become richer. That's one lesson from Stockton's recent history, as recounted by St...
If California wants to curb poverty, its local governments must become richer. That's one lesson from Stockton's recent history, as recounted by Stanford Law School professor Michelle Wilde Anderson in her Zócalo Book Prize-winning book, 'The Fight to Save the Town.' The author connects the dots between the poverty of people and the poverty of local governments. At the story's heart are decades-long declines in federal and state support for local governments. Between 1979 and 2016, federal funding to neighborhood development decreased 80%.