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Poverty has fallen across most Appalachian states, but coalfield poverty rates are consistently nearly double the national rate of 12.4%. In many counties in Eastern Kentucky, poverty is double ...

Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep with the view from Appalachia, exploring how national issues look from a local level. We're in Knoxville, Tenn., where people say Appalachia, not Appalachia. We're before a live ...

Poverty experts say these efforts helped relieve the most acute conditions, but did little else. As coalemployment declined, people fled because there was little else for them to do. McDowell County ...

PIKETON — Keith E. Pitts, president and CEO of the Community Action Committee of Pike County (CAC), has been awarded the Marvin J. Huston General’s Award by the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian ...

Unlike the other three, the Appalachian Regional Commission is still kicking. The only question is, for how much longer? Officially, it was born in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “war ...

(LEX 18) — For more than 60 years, Christian Appalachian Project has helped families in Appalachia who have struggled to build better lives and break free from the grasp of poverty. CAP builds hope, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The region’s most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky’s ...