Working-class Americans on a “Tightrope”
Podcast |
Radio Times
Publisher |
WHYY
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Jan 21, 2020
Episode Duration |
00:49:28

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof discusses his new book, "Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope," about why working-class families are losing ground.

Guest: Nicholas Kristof

New York Times columnist, NICHOLAS KRISTOF looks at the struggles facing working class communities across the country in a new book, TightropeAmericans Reaching for Hope. The book, co-authored with his writing partner and wife Sheryl WuDunn, starts off in his own hometown of Yamhill, Oregon, where about a quarter of his school classmates have died of addiction, obesity, suicide, or reckless accidents. Kristof comes in to talk about his deeply personal examination of rural poverty and a generation that’s losing ground.

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