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Interchange – Draining the Heartland: Authoritarian Populism in Rural America

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe 1980’s farm crisis defined an entire generation of farmers and the rural communities that surrounded and relied on them. Interest rates soared. Farm land value dropped. A decade of record-breaking production in farm commodities led to a glut, a surplus, that depressed prices. Exports declined as …

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