Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Billionaires hide in plain sight in America’s richest county.
But the workers who keep the town running can no longer afford to live there. Half commute an hour through a canyon just to get to work.
Jackson Hole tells the story of wealth inequality playing out everywhere.
Producer & Editor: Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen
Reporter & Producer: John Russell
Videographers: Mike Wynn
Motion Designer: Ian McKenna
Supervising Producer: Meg Herschlein
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong
Video Editing Fellow: Daria Nastasia
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More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
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Billionaires hide in plain sight in America’s richest county.
But the workers who keep the town running can no longer afford to live there. Half commute an hour through a canyon just to get to work.
Jackson Hole tells the story of wealth inequality playing out everywhere.
Producer & Editor: Josh Hirschfeld-Kroen
Reporter & Producer: John Russell
Videographers: Mike Wynn
Motion Designer: Ian McKenna
Supervising Producer: Meg Herschlein
Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya
Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens
Video Production Fellow: Astrid Dong
Video Editing Fellow: Daria Nastasia
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More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.
To support our independent journalism, subscribe, donate, and follow our other pages through the links below:
- Help fund our reporting: secure.actblue.com/donate/mpu-splash
- Substack: substack.perfectunion.us
- TikTok: tiktok.com/@moreperfectunion
- Twitter: twitter.com/MorePerfectUS
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social
- Facebook: facebook.com/MorePerfectUS
- Instagram: instagram.com/perfectunion
- Threads: threads.net/@perfectunion
- Website: perfectunion.us
