The incredible shrinking city

The Impact by Vox Media Podcast Network

Dec 7, 201831:50News & Politics

For decades, Memphis grew by bringing its suburbs into the city limits. City officials thought this suburb-gobbling policy would be an economic boon-- that it would bring in tax revenue. Instead, the policy was an econom...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from The Impact.

40 Acres: Reaching reconciliation

Oct 3, 2022 - 28:50

What good are piecemeal reparations? From Georgetown University, where school leadership once sold enslav...

40 Acres: The old Jim Crow

Oct 3, 2022 - 42:49

Why slavery? Marxist scholar Adolph Reed argues that Jim Crow — not enslavement — is the defining experie...

40 Acres: $14 trillion and no mules

Oct 3, 2022 - 44:37

Paying the price. One of the typical questions asked during conversations about reparations is how to pay...

40 Acres: The original promise

Oct 3, 2022 - 49:22

Fabiola Cineas talks with Nkechi Taifa, the founder and director of the Reparation Education Project, abo...

The Toll

Jun 10, 2020 - 25:46

In this bonus, chat episode of The Impact, Jillian is joined by Vox's Matt Yglesias and Course Correction...

Where the US already has a border wall

Feb 19, 2020 - 32:16

Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are known as “Ambos Nogales” — “both Nogaleses.” The city straddle...

Free tuition is not enough

Feb 12, 2020 - 25:58

Free college tuition seems like a solution to so many problems. After all, the price of tuition is the No...

Family Dollar(s)

Feb 5, 2020 - 19:53

Natasha Razouk wants to give her 7-year-old the best possible life. She buys big boxes of fresh tomatoes...