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03118aam a2200421 i 4500 001 85A294767B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210302012545 007 n 008 200521s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0525564179 020 $a 9780525564171 035 $a (OCoLC)1155078429 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Kristof, Nicholas D., $d 1959- 245 1 $a Tightrope : $b Americans reaching for hope / $c Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. 246 3 $a Americans reaching for hope. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 308 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Reprint. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index. 505 $a The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're number 30!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care : one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference. 520 $a Nicholas Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid addiction and recovery suggests that there are viable ways to solve our nation's drug epidemic. These accounts provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. 541 $d 20210203. 650 $a Poor $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 $a Working class $z United States $x Social conditions. 651 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1980- 651 $a United States $x Economic conditions $y 2009- 655 7 $a Informational works. 655 7 $a Case studies. 655 7 $a Informational works. 655 7 $a Case studies. 700 $a WuDunn, Sheryl, $d 1959-, $e author. 700 $a Addario, Lynsey, $e photographer. 941 $a 1 952 $l KOPC446 $d 20210302013949.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85A294767B2811EB8960C99555ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search