PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman travels to central Ohio to paint a portrait of a growing economic divide in two neighboring counties. Thirty years ago, Delaware and Crawford counties had roughly the same income. Today, one has sweet homes, good jobs and trendy cafés; the other, empty factories, heroin addiction, copper stripped everywhere for cash. Why the dramatic difference? In a word: location.
Tune in to the PBS NewsHour on Tuesday, March 15 for the full report. In the meantime, watch a preview here.
Paul Solman (photo left)
The report is part of the PBS NewsHour’s collaboration with Patchwork Nation, a multimedia project which uses demographic data to divide the nation’s counties into 12 community types to get a better understanding of the socio-economic, political and cultural shifts coursing through the country.
READ To break down the impact of the economic shifts of the last three decades, Patchwork Nation looked at median family income in all of the nation's 3,141 counties in 1980 and 2010 for the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The results showed that, on average, families in seven of the 12 county types in Patchwork Nation were making less now than then when the numbers were adjusted for inflation, while a few had done quite well.
WATCH For a real-world portrait of what those numbers mean in real places, Paul Solman and the NewsHour explore two different counties in Ohio that had gone in dramatically different directions over that period -- Crawford County, a struggling "Emptying Nest" and former manufacturing town, and Delaware County, a "Monied Burb" bordering Columbus that has leveraged its proximity to Ohio State University and the state capital to become smarter and wealthier.
INTERACT Join the conversation about America ’s growing inequality crisis via an online chat – March 17 at 3 p.m. In a discussion moderated by PBS NewsHour Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, Paul Solman and Patchwork Nation's Dante Chinni will answer questions about their reports and the growing economic inequality in America . Submit questions ahead of time via Facebook or Twitter.
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