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About the Author
Christopher Ingraham writes about all things data, with a particular interest in wealth, income, and inequality. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center.
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Portions of chapter 1 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “I Called This Place ‘America’s Worst Place to Live.’ Then I Went There.”
Portions of chapter 5 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “I Ordered a Box of Crickets from the Internet and It Went About as Well as You’d Expect.”
Portions of chapter 8 have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “Why These Rural, White, Gun-Owning Guys Didn’t Vote for Trump.”
Portions of chapter 3, chapter 5, and the epilogue have previously appeared in a different form in the Washington Post story “What Life Is Really Like in ‘America’s Worst Place to Live.’”
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