vance was well known as the bestselling author of hill barry elegy. he appeared at the national football league festival in 2017. >> i think we have a pretty significant problem with the fact that you are effectively given a choice when you graduate from high school between going and working in a fast food job, or going for a four-year education. i think we should provide more pathways than that. when those are the only two pathways, it's not surprising that you see people going in those directions. i also think that we have to think a little more constructively about regional economic developments. the ways that this is gone for the past 20 years is that i'm a local municipality, i offer someone a tax credit to set up a restaurant in my hometown. not as great. new restaurants are fantastic. that is not the long term economic development that has to happen in some of these areas. i think basically all levels of policy makers have to be thinking differently than they are right now. >> democrat cori bush was reelected in her st. louis area district. she