Trump’s gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities
Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI ...
dailyyonder.com5 个月
The Rural Americans Too Poor for Federal Flood Protections
“Get up,” she told him. “There’s a flood outside.” It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in late July, two years ago in rural Pike County, Kentucky, and rain had been pouring for days. Overnight, it got heavier ...
Kentucky faces $40 million school funding gap as student lawsuit pushes for change
Kentucky is facing a $40 million school funding shortfall, with the state’s education chief warning of potential impacts on ...
dailyyonder.com7 年
Rural Upbringing Increases Odds that Young People Will Marry
Appalachia may be largely poor, as Vance writes, but three quarters of the rural counties in the mountains of Kentucky and West Virginia have communities that help children in poor families earn and ...