Poverty has fallen across most Appalachian states, but coalfield poverty rates are consistently nearly double the national rate of 12.4%. In many counties in Eastern Kentucky, poverty is double ...

Two conservative think tanks have called for the Kentucky legislature to stop spending money for a program they think is too ...

You can cut the data in multiple ways, and West Virginia still lags the nation." But this crisis — and the realization that there won't be another coal boom in these parts — is leading to a growing ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The region’s most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky’s ...

JACKSON, Ky. — Shirley Howard’s feet splashed into nearly a foot of water when she stepped out of bed on a summer morning last July amid a torrential rainfall. A devastating flood swallowing up ...