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There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.

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Judy Woodruff
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: November 20
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