Poverty, Religion And American Frustration (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

In his new memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” J.D. Vance writes about a culture in crisis: Poor, white Americans. It’s about his childhood spent in the coal-country of Appalachia, and his years spent in the Marines and Yale Law School. But it’s also an anguished look at working-class dysfunction. Poverty, joblessness, poor education, opioid addiction, erosion of family ties, erosion of church ties, that have led to what he describes as “hillbilly culture” to abandon, he says, the American Dream...
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http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/06/29/poverty-religion-and-american-frustration