While witnessing the game of chance called Juvenile Probation in Dysfunctional Poker, readers meet Cristina Martinez, a probation officer whose dedication and devotion to her charges has earned her the moniker Mamasita, or little mother. She introduces us to double-trouble sisters Reyna and MiLinda Rangel, who continually fight over comments, real or imagined, and Denny, whose fat ass father and good-for-one-thing mother get her residentially placed. And we come across the unlikely friends Bert, the athlete, and Rogelio, the car thief, who take different roads to the same university, along...

This book discusses the question of how a regional economy can develop under the influence of an ageing and declining population, and how regional development policies can help make labor markets more resilient and more inclusive.