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America's forgotten working class | J.D. Vance

America's forgotten working class | J.D. Vance

How can we help kids from America's forgotten places break free from hopelessness and live better lives?

TED Talks Daily · TED

February 8, 201914m 45s

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Show Notes

J.D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a front-row seat to many of the social ills plaguing America: a heroin epidemic, failing schools, families torn apart by divorce and sometimes violence. In a searching talk that will echo throughout the country's working-class towns, the author details what the loss of the American Dream feels like and raises an important question that everyone from community leaders to policy makers needs to ask: How can we help kids from America's forgotten places break free from hopelessness and live better lives?

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