The Deeper Dig: What keeps Vermonters together across a widening income divide?
A look at Facebook data, a Northeast Kingdom general store and “a geography to connectedness.”
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'People crossing paths': How Vermonters maintain social connectedness in unequal times
Connections between lower-income and higher-income people can drive economic mobility, new research shows — but those connections are rare.
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General stores and their towns still have a heartbeat | Vermont Business Magazine
Sun, 05/02/2021 - 1:38pm -- tim In Shrewsbury, Pierce's Store, reopened as a cooperative in 2009, is thriving. Manager Elana Levin was too busy for an interview. Photos by C.B. Hall by C.B. Hall, Vermont Business Magazine "If you don't have a store, you can't really have a town," Ripton resident and prominent environmentalist Bill McKibben wrote in a New York Times op-ed three years ago. It's a thought that haunts many Vermont towns, as general stores, long a sine qua non of village economies – and the Vermont brand – contend with today's economic forces. From Albany in the state's north...
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