EPISODE · Feb 22, 2020 · 1H
Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope
from Free Forum with Terrence McNally · host Terrence McNally
In TIGHTROPE, the Pulitzer Prize winning husband-wife team of Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn tell the story of how the town in which Nick grew up was devastated by the loss of well-paying jobs, how policy failures on education, healthcare, and criminal justice led ultimately to his childhood friends’ deaths of despair, how this is a national phenomenon and finally how we can end this crisis in working class America.
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In TIGHTROPE, the Pulitzer Prize winning husband-wife team of Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn tell the story of how the town in which Nick grew up was devastated by the loss of well-paying jobs, how policy failures on education, healthcare, and criminal justice led ultimately to his childhood friends’ deaths of despair, how this is a national phenomenon and finally how we can end this crisis in working class America.
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Nick Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn-TIGHTROPE-Americans in Despair Reaching for Hope
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