Author: jodieadamskirshner

“Essential…in showcasing people who are persistent, clever, flawed, loving, struggling and full of contradictions, Broke affirms why it’s worth solving the hardest problems in our most challenging cities in the first place. ” –Anna Clark, The New York Times “Through in-depth reporting of structural inequality as it affects real people in Detroit, Jodie Adams Kirshner’s Broke examines one side … Kirshner’s Broke examines one side of the economic divide in America” –Salon “What Broke really tells us is how systems of government, law and finance can crush even the hardiest of boot-strap pullers.” –Brian Alexander, author of Glass House A…