Life 'On The Run' In America’s Big Cities (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

America’s underground economy sprawls far and wide now. Maybe $2 trillion in off-the-books work and trade. A big part of it grows from tough neighborhoods where the formal economy is so thin and the hand of the law is so heavy that it’s hard to stay on the straight and narrow. Sociologist Alice Goffman has gone there. To an urban economy and culture so shadowed by police and incarceration that it lives “on the run.” To a system that finds millions living as fugitives in their own neighborhoods. This hour On Point: the underground life of America’s most heavily-policed communities. -- Tom Ashbrook
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http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/08/25/on-the-run-alice-goffman