Americans are now desperately ‘reaching for hope’

Producer | Interviewer

For The Hill’s Changing America series, I interviewed Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about their book Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. The story explores how decades of economic decline and social neglect have devastated working-class communities like Kristof’s hometown of Yamhill, Oregon. Together, Kristof and WuDunn lay out the scale of America’s “crisis of despair” — and the policy solutions they believe could restore opportunity and dignity across the country.

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