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For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we rarely hear the voices of regular people living the transformation.
As Ohio Goes is a journey through cities, suburbs, and remote rural towns in this quintessential American state. Sitting together at dining room tables, walking through rows of planted fields, and swinging back beers at pubs, youll meet individuals you wont soon forget. People like Bill, whose handicap did not push him to take disability payments until his layoff, and Rhonda, a working mother embarrassed to feed her son using food stamps. There are the young soldier who shows us his scars from deployment to Iraq but who remains in the Army to make ends meet and the Amish man whose business loss during the downturn induced him to leave his family and the church.
Together their stories personify todays timeliest issues, which Rana B. Khoury navigates in informative and accessible terms. From student debt and health care costs to female breadwinners and hydraulic fracturing, As Ohio Goes situates each story in a context that relates it to wider trends in Ohio and across the United States. Where economic experts deal in the abstract, Khoury pumps life into otherwise cold facts and figures, putting a human face on economic issues.
If the old adage as Ohio goes, so goes the nation is right, then these stories should tell us where the nation is headed. Although Ohio is a swing state, Khoury insists that blue and red do not capture the character of the place she calls home. Another reality demands attention: economic inequality has reached historic levels, and there is no indication that the trend will slow or reverse. The growing income gap threatens democratic representation, equal opportunity, and even the American Dream itself. The people in this book display remarkable adaptability, resilience, and love, despite their predicaments, yet the countrys course is the sum of individual fates. Where are Ohio and the nation going?
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Every four years, Ohio becomes a political battleground for presidential candidates, who talk a lot and pretend to listen. Rana Khourys captivating first book, As Ohio Goes, offers a much-needed corrective. Curious and intrepid, Khoury traveled the state for a year and has returned with stories of working men and women that are at once illuminating, heartbreaking, and inspiring. There are no easy answers found here. But if we listen to the voices that Khoury has captured, we will find plenty of hard-earned wisdom that can point the way forward.Gabriel Thompson, author of Americas Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Rana Khoury spent a year traveling through her native state, talking with ordinary Ohioans about how the Great Recession has ravaged their lives. The result is a devastating indictment of a society in deep economic crisis. It is an unsettling and important read.Perry Bush, author of Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small Community Took On Big Oil and Won (The Kent State University Press, 2012)
The voices of the people Rana Khoury has included need to be heard. Policy makers deal with statistics. They need to see the people behind them. This book takes them to that place.Dale Maharidge, author of Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
I recommend As Ohio Goes to anyone who wants to understand the hopes, fears, anguish, and heartbreak being experienced by so many of our citizens. Rana B. Khoury writes so beautifully of average people caught up in the maelstrom of an economy in transition. Shes traveled throughout Ohiolistening to the stories of people from diverse backgrounds who are struggling in this post-recession economy to provide a decent life for themselves and their loved ones. What I found most amazing about this book is the way Rana makes it comfortable for people to share the most intimate details of their lives. As you read their stories, it becomes impossible to hide from the reality of life in America today. If you want a deeper understanding of America and the struggles of its people, I urge you to read As Ohio Goes.Ted Strickland, 68th Governor of Ohio
Ohio
Goes
Recession Nation
The Kent State University Press 
Kent, Ohio
2016 by The Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio 44242
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015036102
ISBN 978-1-60635-280-9
Manufactured in the United States of America
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Khoury, Rana B., author.
Title: As Ohio goes : life in the post-recession nation / Rana B. Khoury.
Description: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015036102 | ISBN 9781606352809 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Working class--Ohio. | Ohio--Economic conditions--21st century. | Ohio--Social conditions--21st century. | Recessions--Social aspects--United States--History--21st century. | United States--Politics and government--2009
Classification: LCC HD8083.O3 K46 2016 | DDC 330.9771--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036102
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To my parents
Each time I listen to someones life story, I feel part of a precious undertaking. I am a stranger being entrusted with private sentiments. I know my probing exposes weaknesses and fears. Occasionally, the whole process creates a sense of hope, the prospect of making a difference lingering enticingly over the conversation. Carrying the weight of these stories is sometimes overwhelming and at all times humbling. To those Ohioans who shared their storiesthank you. You have made this book possible. You have also made my life more meaningful.
I did not take on this task without assistance. In Ohio I benefited greatly from the guidance and hospitality of people in each corner of the stateGreg Miller, Richey Piiparinen, Beth Swartz, and George Windau. Sherry Linkon and John Russo, founders and longtime directors of the eminent Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University, advised me as if I were one of their students. Ann Harris and Paul Bellamy helped me understand, and thereby relay, specialized issues.
Although this project was well under way before I arrived at Northwestern University, once there I benefited from the input of Jordan Gans-Morse and Benjamin Iverson, as well as from support from the American Politics program in the Political Science Department. I am especially grateful to Benjamin I. Page. His reading and feedback on particular chapters was of great value; his professorship and scholarship, even more so. Several others have read portions of the project out of no obligation to me but their friendship: Anny Gaul, Scott Kroehle, Thomas Osann, and Jason Paul.
All that input and assistance helped produce a manuscript that Joyce Harrison of Kent State University Press deemed worth publishing. Im grateful to her for taking a chance on me, to the rest of the staff at KSUP for working toward publication, and to Marian Buda for making the book a more readable final product.
There are a handful of individuals whose reading of my manuscript has been just a small part of their contributions to my life. Dale Maharidge was my teacher before he even met me; since our meeting in New York, he may have sealed his place as my role model for good. Michael C. Hudson is a master of mentoring. From Georgetown to Singapore, he has enlightened me on everything from Arab politics and foreign policy to gin martinis and impressionism. Alex Shakar excites my mind with his writing and intellect; he soothes my heart with his love and equanimity. Alex is my good luck. Finally, I thank my parents, Wael and Sawssan Khoury. They have encouraged my various undertakings generously and persistently. More importantly, they are the ones who implanted in me the unrelenting desire to see, experience, and understand the world around me. They also created a familywhich includes my siblings Shaadi, Hala, and Leilathat is a constant source of support and love.
It doesnt affect us as much because we dont have the overhead like you people do, as far as no electric bill, no mortgage. No, just the business.
I sat on a stiff couch across the room from Jacob, who was swaying on one of three wooden rocking chairs padded with blue quilted cushions. A ceiling-high wooden chest with glass doors stood between two windows that cast bright sunlight onto the living rooms glossy wooden floor. A few other wooden tables filled the spaces in the room, each boasting a distinct design. On one wall hung an Ohio-shaped clock with each county in the state inlaid in a different color of wood; I was east of 3 oclock, in Carroll County, home to one of the regions Amish communities. Jacob had built everything I was looking at.
Toward the end of our conversation, Jacob brought into the room a musical contraption he had made: a large steel tub turned open-side down, fitted with a wooden bow and a thick string. Jacob hung a harmonica holder on his shoulders, freeing his hands to pluck the instrument while blowing and sucking a folk tune on the mouth organ for the next ten minutes. It was a researchers paradise.
Still, my mind was stuck on that earlier sentence. Here in front of me was someone unaffected by the Great Recession. And all that took was living in the middle of nowhere, forgoing public services in favor of his communitys schools and health care, relying extensively on his neighbors and himself for food, water, and shelter, and believing wholeheartedly in a Dutch-speaking god whose first day of work forever obviated the need for electricity.
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