Americas forgotten working class, J. D. Vance

J. D. Vance grew up in a small, poor city in the Rust Belt of southern Ohio, where he had a frontrow 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 workingclass 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 f