J.D. Vance is a Yale lawyer that established a foundation in his home state of Ohio after a career in finance and technology. His bestselling 2016 book, Hillbilly Elegy, opened the window to a world of family dysfunction, trauma, abuse, addiction, and despair. Vance features his own story in Appalachia and also applies the lessons of his life to the American South as places where rural life has spiraled downward in a self-fulfilling prophecy of low-skill work and opioid abuse.
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