The Dig: Bonds of Inequality w/ Destin Jenkins
On the devastating consequences of using municipal debt to fund infrastructure.
Jacobin Radio · Jacobin
April 21, 20221h 43m
Show Notes
Destin Jenkins on his book The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City, which makes a powerful argument about how the ubiquitous and in many ways invisible dependence of American cities on municipal debt to fund basic infrastructure has devastating consequences for democracy and entrenches spatial, racial, and wealth disparities.
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