01734cam a2200349 i 4500 1600111736 TxAuBib 20240917120000.0 190329s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019014592 9780525655084 hbk. 0525655085 hbk. (OCoLC)1091236838 TxAuBib rda Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-, author. Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. ©2020. 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're number 61!" -- 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. 20240917. Poor United States Social conditions. Working class United States Social conditions. United States Social conditions 1980-2020- United States Economic conditions 2009- WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959-, author.