From the coal mines of West Virginia to the farmlands of California, from the vast plains of South Dakota to the roaring metropolises of New York, Ney reveals that “mirror counties” offer a blueprint for prosperity that can reasonably be transplanted from one community to the next. 

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Jeremy Ney is a leading voice on inequality and opportunity in America. A former economic policymaker at the Federal Reserve, he writes the best-selling Substack, American Inequality and teaches at Columbia Business School. His writing has appeared in Time, Business Insider, New America, and other outlets.