The Fight to Save Stockton
Stockton, California (above) is a prime example of disinvestment in local government and people—but recovery is possible. Columnist Joe Mathews rea...
Stockton, California (above) is a prime example of disinvestment in local government and people—but recovery is possible. Columnist Joe Mathews reads Zócalo Book Prize winner Michelle Wilde Anderson's The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America . Courtesy of AP Newsroom . If California wants to curb poverty, its local governments must become richer. That may be the most important lesson of the recent history of Stockton, as recounted by Stanford Law School professor Michelle Wilde Anderson, a scholar of poverty and local government, in her Zócalo Book Prize-winning book , The Fight to Save the Town .