JD Vance: Voice of the Underdog? "JD Vance’s ‘Jobs for Hillbillies’ Start-Up Employed Migrants Instead"

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Will Neal for the Daily Beast questions Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance's, whose book Hillbilly Elegy tells a compelling story about his humble beginnings.  He writes that   

"For a self-proclaimed ‘hillbilly hero’ it seems JD Vance doesn’t much care for the little man, if new revelations about one of the vice-presidential candidate’s former ventures are anything to go by.

Before collapsing under the weight of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of debt, AppHarvest was touted as the herald of a new, tech-savvy era of farming in Eastern Kentucky. Last year, the firm filed for bankruptcy after years of pursuing aggressive growth, in part by prioritizing migrant workers from Central America despite early pledges of employment opportunities for impoverished local communities."

The Vance story is making the new cycle.

KJ