Slow Road To Nowhere

The 2010 Census will likely uncover a lot of people like Russell Brockman, who grew up in Chicago, but never outgrew it... Starting out life in a poor family, living in a low-income neighborhood with bad schools and few role models, a chronic substance abuser stuck in a cycle of poverty and prison that perpetuates itself, generation after generation, just like some 40 million people today in the United States.

Audio: APM's American Radio Works, Host: Stephen Smith with Laurie Stern.