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Destination and Drift in Atlantic City

by Jacob Avery | August 5, 2010 | Summer 2010

“America’s Playground” entertains many with its glitz and gambling, but it’s also home to many street homeless. This essay explores the paradox.

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Jacob Avery is in the sociology department at the University of California Irvine. There, he enjoys teaching introductory sociology, and he is writing about homelessness in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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