It's a question that ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý reporter Erica Heilman has been asking Vermonters from all sorts of backgrounds for a series about money and class and privilege.
Explore the full series below.
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In this episode of "What class are you?" Tankhun Thongjunthoug talks about what it was like to grow up in an immigrant family, and how he experienced the undercurrents of the American class system.
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Mark LaRouche prefers life in 'the lower class', but says it's hard to make a life without resources"What class are you?" It's a question that ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý reporter Erica Heilman has been asking people in Vermont, and this is the fourth installment of a new five-part series. Mark LaRouche grew up in a middle class family in Rutland, but says he prefers "the lower class," and he believes that addiction is the hardest class of all.
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Reporter Erica Heilman talked with Katrin Tchana about her childhood in Lyme, New Hampshire, and how it has become increasingly difficult for people who grew up there to remain.
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Retired Vermont State Police trooper Ingrid Jonas talks about class assumptions in law enforcement � and expensive condiments.
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Damian Renzello and reporter Erica Heilman are the same age and both grew up in Vermont. But according to Damian, they will always be different fruits.
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Ashley Messier on the cycle of poverty and abuse, and the challenge of getting out without resourcesIn this installment of "What class are you," Ashley Messier talks about growing up in Essex with an abusive father and with little money, and how she found herself repeating the cycle in early adulthood.
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Private investigator Susan Randall talks with reporter Erica Heilman about the privileges of growing up upper middle class in this episode of "What class are you?"
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Vermont Edition shares the last installment of ¿ªÔÆÌåÓý's occasional series called ‘What Class Are You?â€�, where reporter Erica Heilman drives around Vermont and talks with people from all sorts of backgrounds about money and privilege.
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In this installment of "What class are you?" writer Garret Keizer discusses what happens when we address issues of race and gender equity, but we ignore income inequality.
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In this installment of "What class are you?" St. Albans resident Stephanie Robtoy talks about the stigma of poverty, and the possibility offered by recovery.