Nearly 1 in 6 Americans lives in a “distressed” community.
Understanding who these Americans are and where they live could be the key to solving political polarization.
In this episode of the Washington Monthly podcast, I interviewed Kenan Fikri, Senior Fellow at the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) about the Distressed Communities Index, a remarkable dataset that Kenan has curated for the last decade.
Watch, listen, or read the transcript here.
Anne Kim 