JD Vance also is crafty enough to know that the the coal mines and VCR factory jobs aren't coming back to Bug Tussle, Appalachia, but rather than tell them the truth about their need for better education and training (and the support that government funding can provide for these things), he'd rather exploit their resentment and anger and tell them that that migrant workers are the reason their VCR factory job dried up as they became addicted to painkillers.
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With all due respect, "education" and "training" for what? I'm not sure what the solution to outsourcing and job loss due to digitization is but scolding bromides about more "education" and "training" are not it. What people need is an economy that produces jobs that pay a living wage. How you get there is the big question.
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