I carry coal company scrip in a little zipper pouch in my wallet everywhere I go. It’s a few little coins, with holes punched ...

Childers showcases what it means to grow up in rural America. Childers does not write a story about deer hunting, but he does ...

Blue Ridge Parkway, known as “America’s favorite drive,” is a 469-mile roadway through the rugged mountains and pastoral landscapes of the Appalachian Highlands. It connects Shenandoah ...

Dear Editor: Social Security has greatly reduced poverty among the elderly. There are a number of websites that document this. Search on Social Security and poverty to find them. The National Bureau ...

In the book, Vance says that white working class people in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains, which his grandparents left in the late 1940s, were once staunch supporters of the Democratic Party.

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Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 600,000 children out of poverty in the next five years, analysis has found. Researchers at Action for Children have warned that separate plans to ...

The SIPP Theater sported a busy lobby on March 14 when staff and volunteers with the Christian Appalachian Project and community ... with a statement from the organization indicating that the poverty ...

I want families facing long waits for diagnosis to be supported, and for it to become crystal clear to policymakers that SEND is a portal to poverty for too many families. I want us to stop trying to ...

Hikers discovered the two bodies of Qaadir Malik Lewis and Naazir Rahim Lewis, both 19, on Bell Mountain just before noon on March 8 Chris Spargo is a senior reporter at PEOPLE who joined the ...

The richest countries are gradually developing a dynamic that shows an insane indifference to poverty, environmental degradation and the zoonoses that can result from the abuse of our primary forests.