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 ...

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 ...