#Education#Politics#Election2024 "Public education — and then college — were my tickets out of poverty, just as they were for Mr. Vance. I became a first-generation college student courtesy of federally funded Pell Grants, which covered the entirety of my four-year state-college degree."

Opinion | I Grew Up Much Like JD Vance. How Did We End Up So Different?

The vice-presidential nominee should be thinking of how to extend a ladder to those he left behind, not how to pull it up behind him.