Columns/Opinions
August 2, 2021
Help needed to revive our American Dream
I am no stranger to hard work or starting over but after the last year, my family and I are facing our biggest challenge yet-- and my dreams of security and success are slipping away. Since I was 16, I’ve been working hard, first on an oil rig and then as a deckhand on a line boat transporting rock, coal, grains, seed and corn up and down the Mississippi River.