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This week:
* How kids in an Ohio town became a breakaway reading success, and how a new law is putting it all at risk.
* On More To The Story, Arlie Hochschild talks about the long slide of downward mobility in rural America.
* Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.


** THIS WEEK’S REVEAL
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** Teaching Kids to Read: How One School District Gets It Right
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Illustration by Emily Bernstein for APM Reports
The third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation.

For nearly 20 years, 93 percent or more of them have scored proficient on state reading tests. Many of the wealthiest places in the country can't even say that. And according to the state of Ohio, Steubenville students are considered "economically disadvantaged."

This week, in partnership with APM Reports and the Sold a Story podcast, we look at how Steubenville became a success—and how a new law put it all at risk.
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** How Trump Exploits Working-Class Pain
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President Donald Trump is joined by coal miners at the White House on April 8, 2025. Credit: Sipa USA/AP

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who have been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and shuttered coal mines. They’re the very people President Donald Trump argues will benefit most from his sweeping wave of tariffs and recent executive orders aimed at reviving coal mining in the US. But Hochschild argues that Trump’s policies will only fill an emotional need for those in rural America.

In her latest book, Stolen Pride, Hochschild visited Pikeville, Kentucky, a small city in Appalachia where coal jobs were leaving, opioids were arriving, and a white supremacist march was being planned. The more she talked to people, the more she saw how Trump played on their shame and pride about their downward mobility and ultimately used that to his political advantage.

On this week’s episode ([link removed]) of More To The Story, host Al Letson talks with Hochschild about the long slide of downward mobility in rural America and why she thinks Trump’s policies ultimately won’t benefit his core supporters.
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** One Number to Know
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52,529

Between the years 2006 and 2021, 52,529 former police guns were recovered in crime scenes. These numbers include guns lost or stolen from the police, as well as ones they’ve sold.

The Trace and CBS’s data teams had to figure that out by filing records requests from police departments, and cross-referencing serial numbers, makes of guns, and other bits of information. After our joint investigation ([link removed]) , several police departments changed their policies.
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