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Year: 2019

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“Without understanding the devastation of the lives of working-class families in regions like West Virginia, and the vast increase in class inequality since the 2008 crisis, you can’t understand what’s happening in the United States.”  A giant has begun to stir. Hillary Clinton calls them “deplorables” who inhabit “backward” regions...

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