Justin Williams, now 24, was a teenager when the Indiana manufacturing plant where both of his parents worked shut down in 2007. He still works in the eastern Indiana town where he was raised, but told me he didn't feel that there was a very supportive network for him growing up. “It's hard to do anything around here if you don't know people—you need connections,” he said. He didn't go to college, and now works as a bartender at a local bar. He's worked in a few factories, but none of them paid as well as his parents were paid.
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