When the Politics of Anger Prevail

Why low wages in America are at the root of the Trump presidency

Alireza Naraghi
GEN
Published in
7 min readApr 5, 2018

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VVisit any small town in the US, and you’ll no longer ask yourself why rural America bubbles away with resentment. People living in rural communities, on average, are poorer than they were a decade ago, when Wall Street plunged the global economy into chaos. And despite the ostensible economic…

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Alireza Naraghi
GEN
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Journalist and feature writer. Work in @macleans, @HuffPost, @NovaraMedia & elsewhere. Researching social movements @RyersonU