So is math — the economics of gentrification, intricately tied to have/have-not realities, including the racial wealth gap, virtually guarantee that new homeowners won’t be Black.

To boost access to existing high-end cryo-EM microscopes, NIH has created three national centers where have-not researchers can send samples for analysis.

Then the money can be distributed to the have-not places that need it most, like Wahkiakum.

But its solution—to immediately allocate 20% of NSF’s budget to what is currently a small program serving those have-not states—is drawing fierce opposition from many universities and nearly 100 members of Congress.

Less clear-cut is how to save the country from recession when the United States appears to be returning to a have/have-not economy.