Nina McCoy, high school teacher, Martin County, KY The national broadcast media rarely grapples with the interplay of concentrated wealth and power and the functioning of democracy when it attempts to ...

Writing Appalachia: An Anthology' edited by Katherine ... of Charles Dickens "David Copperfield" as a young man navigating poverty in contemporary Southern Appalachia. In what The Washington ...

Through an initiative recently introduced to Appalachia, expectant mothers struggling to break free of generational poverty ...

"We continue to neglect poverty in these areas, whether it's Central California, or Appalachia, or the (Mississippi) Delta." Barber said poverty is falsely seen as a marginal issue that affects ...

"He blames poor people in Appalachia, where he has no lived experience ... In it, the mother of seven tells her life story of ...

There is widespread poverty in affected areas, where at least 33,000 people now have no electricity. The flooding - after torrential rain - caused mudslides and made roads impassable. Appalachia ...