In a struggling Rust Belt city, residents fight to bring pre-K to child care deserts In East St. Louis, one of the country's poorest cities, child care providers improved pre-K access and quality by teaming up. Then their funding ran out.

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We used to have decaying cities. We still have some of those. Nowadays we seem to have collapsing rural areas. East Saint Louis used to be famous for having a sort of industrial park made up of strip clubs.