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Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Deep Story on the Right

As a foreigner looking in and reading some of the literature, it seems not so much that these people have been waiting on the outskirts of hope for the American dream as much as they've just been languishing in purgatory. And you're sure familiar with the great work done by the Princeton economists, the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and his wife Anne Case,. So at this point now, 150,000 people in the white working class, people without college degrees are dying deaths of despair every year.

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