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Stockton is the most diverse city in America.

It was also one of the hardest hit by post-industrial decline and the foreclosure crisis, which in part led the city government to file for bankruptcy in 2012.

In her new book, The Fight to Save the Town, reimagining discarded America,

Stanford Law Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson took a close look at Stockton and three other cities

with quote border-to-border poverty and gutted local governments.

These cities have been written off as dying, but in each of the towns, Anderson profiles ways

residents have found to address big systemic issues like violence and homelessness.

So, in the next hour, we focus on our neighbor to the east and what

its travails and triumphs say about the country. That's coming up next after this news.

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