NPR's Pam Fessler was told that Eastern Kentuckians would be reluctant to talk because they were tired of being depicted as the poster children of... In Appalachia, Poverty Is In The Eye Of The ...

APPALACHIA is a region as large as all Great Britain and the home of fifteen million Americans. Once, long ago, it was green and rich. For years it has been sick and now it is dying, a charity patient ...

This report by Holmes Rolston III (A.B., Davidson College; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; Ph.D., Edinburgh University), who is pastor of the ...

PIKETON — Keith E. Pitts, president and CEO of the Community Action Committee of Pike County (CAC), has been awarded the Marvin J. Huston General’s Award by the Corporation for Ohio Appalachian ...

Map of Appalachian Counties. Appalachian counties are defined according to the Appalachian Regional Commission. Rural and urban status definitions are from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

Few artists better encapsulate the "American Dream" better than Loney Hutchins Sr. Born atop Timbertree Branch between Bristol and Kingsport, Tenn. to poor and illiterate parents, Hutchins went on to ...

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

Last week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report about Consumer Finances in Rural Appalachia. This report looks at the entire Appalachian region of the U.S. encompassing 206 ...