Tulsa Illustrates America’s Complexity
“The national media has often analyzed Tulsa as a microcosm of the worst and best of America’s challenges and problem-solving. It is the place where the Midwest meets the South and the Southwest. And Tulsa has been a leader in public, private and nonprofit collaboration. The New York Times’ portrait by Cassidy McDonald of philanthropist George Kaiser describes why and how ‘Kaiser has turned Tulsa into ‘beta city’, U.S.A., a testing ground for evidence-based social programs that aim to overhaul the way America handles issues related to inequality.’”