Broken heartland
Farm life, united states
Rural poor
United states, social conditions, 1980-
Farmers
Rural conditions
Social conditions
Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economi…
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