Where does JD Vance stand on key economic issues?
CBSN
JD Vance's career has followed a classic American rags-to-riches trajectory: After growing up in poverty in rural Ohio, he was accepted at an Ivy League university, finished a law degree, and leveraged his new connections into wealth and a seat in the U.S. Senate.
While that part of Vance's biography may be familiar to voters, thanks to his best-selling 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" and frequent media appearances as a senator, his economic views are less well known. But with former President Donald Trump having picked him as his running mate for November, Vance's economic views on everything from trade to tech are drawing scrutiny.
While Vance, 39, is known for changing his views – he once called Trump "cultural heroin" — he's long espoused the idea that Americans in economically struggling regions of the country need to exercise willpower to improve their lives, rather than rely on government programs.
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