Reclaiming Your Community: You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them they can get.



Carter, who could have been one of them, returned to the South Bronx and devised a de...