Vance’s Rust Belt-focused nonprofit group to be dissolved after minimal success

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Former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), is seeking to dissolve a charity he formed after he published his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, which has since been adapted into a movie.

He created two nonprofit groups in 2016 to address problems in his home state of Ohio and other Rust Belt states. The two charities were largely supposed to address the opioid crisis, a lack of job opportunities, and lacking mental health treatment.

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