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 ...

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That’s perhaps one of the first questions somebody might ask you because the answer tells them a lot. Where did you grow up, ...

Here & Now’s Scott Tong visited Kingsolver in her home in western Virginia to talk about the power of home, poverty and addiction.

Stephen C. “Steve” Cawood said that as a child growing up in Pineville his family's position insulated him from the region's poverty, which he would discover as a student in college and law school.

Diane Sawyer felt a personal connection in reporting her latest documentary on American children living in poverty. Born in southern Kentucky, raised in Louisville, Sawyer is certain her ancestors ...

Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer says that anyone driving across upstate New York would see a region of economic devastation -- much like Appalachia. In a campaign stop last week in Manhattan, ...