Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, July 17th.

Today on Forbes, here's how much J.D. Vance is worth.

Donald Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, come from two different Americas.

In Trump's, fathers start passing down real estate fortunes to their kids when they are toddlers.

In Vance's, fathers don't even leave kids with their last names.

Raised mostly by his mother's parents, the Vances, J.D. Vance catapulted himself from

Rust Belt Poverty to Coastal High Society with a degree from Yale Law School,

a marriage to another lawyer, and the publication of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about Vance's upbringing.

The book came out in the summer of 2016,

just as Donald Trump was surging in the polls,

leaving liberals searching for something

to explain Trump's popularity in Middle America.

Hillbilly Elegi Elegi made Vance rich. It reportedly sold money. Middle he is worth an estimated $10 million.

Given where he started, it's a remarkable sum,

one that solidifies Vance's place in circles

that might have made his younger self uncomfortable.

Vance's maternal grandparents moved from Jackson, Kentucky to Middletown, Ohio as part of the 1950s mass migration to industrial centers.

His grandfather worked in an Armco steel plant his whole career and they raised three kids.

That included Vance's mother, who had Vance, her second child in 1984 at age 23 with her second husband.

Vence's father was largely out of the picture early.

Vence's childhood was chaotic, laced with dropouts, alcoholics, and violence,

problems he chucks up to both structural factors, economic and security,

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