One was coal mining, which once offered lucrative job opportunities in some of the most rural areas of Appalachia ... says people have chosen to be in poverty or to be in hardship and that ...

We need to answer these questions to ever have a chance of getting a handle on addiction in rural regions ... in Central Appalachia are so vulnerable to addiction. The ARC report and many others point ...

Vance kickstarted his public career with the memoir "Hillbilly Elegy," detailing his upbringing in a poverty-stricken ... especially in rural areas. For example, a lot of Appalachia lacks basic ...

J.D. Vance's claim to fame was his book, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," in which he painted a polarizing picture of Appalachia ... of poor rural white people.

Red areas show the Central Appalachian counties in which ... As we work to confront poverty in all places, connections and alliances must continue to be made between the rural and urban communities ...

On the surface, the new film by Appalachian filmmaker Eddie Mensore could easily be dismissed as just another opioid movie ...