And I'm Steve Inskeep with the view from Appalachia, exploring how national issues look from a local level. We're in Knoxville, Tenn., where people say Appalachia, not Appalachia. We're before a live ...

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 ...

J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” the surprise best-seller published in 2016, is a frisky memoir with a bit of conservative moralizing dangling off, like the price tag on Minnie Pearl’s hat. Nearly ...

Poverty experts say these efforts helped relieve the most acute conditions, but did little else. As coalemployment declined, people fled because there was little else for them to do. McDowell County ...

“A 21st-century Homestead Act offers compelling advantages for political leaders…For conservatives, it emphasizes individual responsibility, property ownership, and free market solutions…For ...

List of entries -- List of primary documents -- Introduction -- Entries : A-Z -- Epilogue : great society at 50 -- Primary documents Entries : Affirmative action ; African American Civil Rights ...

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 ...