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What can the government do to revitalize distressed neighborhoods?

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 1, 2020
Politicians like to use tax incentives, but are they effective?
A boarded storefront with a graffiti plea to end shootings in west Baltimore in 2017. Baltimore benefited from funding through the Clinton administration's Empowerment Zones, but much of the city remains plagued with poverty.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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