Two neighborhoods, the same city, wildly different trajectories. This is what compounded advantage looks like when you trace it across generations.
Where federal and local policy directed investment, property values, schools, and wealth compounded. Where it withheld investment, the opposite compounded just as reliably.
The lesson of Groundwater thinking: the disparity is not about the people in each neighborhood. It is about the water — the structures and history feeding both.
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