My new Politics Daily / Woman Up post:
It’s not often that Kansans make the national news. But one did so a few days ago in The New York Times.
His name is Ray Rucker, and he lives in Overland Park, a suburb of Kansas City. Rucker is 62 years old. He wants to work another 10 years, but he’s been laid off. And no one wants to hire him.
For 32 years I have lived just a few miles from Overland Park. So I think I can describe the mindset of a typical Kansan:
They are polite to a fault. If they have something unkind to say, they keep silent. They go to church. They vote Republican. They work hard. They hoard more than they spend. The cliche of the salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner is not far off the mark…
Read the rest on AOL: You Want Savers, Not Debtors? Since When?
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