Figuring Out If 'Opportunity Zones' Can Revitalize Struggling Neighborhoods

Route Fifty: Boarded-up houses and vacant storefronts dot the streets of Woodlawn.

They’re are a reminder of the uphill economic battle the community is fighting, and of its history as a place that had a freeway carved through it, and that saw white families move away in the years after school desegregation began in Alabama in the 1960s. The neighborhood is also located in a county that underwent one of the biggest municipal bankruptcies in U.S. history.

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