# America's forgotten working class

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNYC
- Speaker: J.D. Vance
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Economics, History
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/j_d_vance_america_s_forgotten_working_class)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [America's forgotten working class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/j_d_vance_america_s_forgotten_working_class/c8197d69df68), 15 min (TED's player)