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Why We Fail to Understand the Working Class

We like to think in America that if you fall behind, you can just “pull yourself up from your bootstraps.” But a fresh start isn’t possible when you’ve never been able to enter the race. New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and author Sheryl WuDunn join guest host Courtney Collins to talk about the burdens that 10 million working class Americans face every day and why the rest of society doesn’t seem to notice. Their book new book is “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.”