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How to Close the Democrats’ Rural Gap

Policy analysts and pundits are grappling with big questions about how Democrats can win more rural voters and shrink the growing rural-urban economic divide. In her cover story for the Washington Monthly, Claire Kelloway argues that antitrust needs to be part of this solution. She writes, "the biggest cause of growing regional inequality isn’t technology; it’s changes in public policy, embraced by both parties, that have enabled predatory monopolies to strip wealth away from farmers and rural communities and transfer it to America’s snazziest zip codes."

Read the full story, here, at the Washington Monthly.