Local and state officials and organizations from around the region sent a letter to members of Congress asking that the ...

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

It's hardly the heart of Appalachia, the rugged hills where President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty some 44 years ago. But like it or not, Tubbs and her neighbors are now residents of ...

Since 1965, the word “Appalachia” has meant more than $8 billion in additional federal spending to member counties--almost $5.5 billion of it for isolation-busting highways.

Though these vast flatlands are a breadbasket to America, the poverty here runs so deep that some call this region the new Appalachia. Here in Fresno, recently designated by the Brookings ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson went to eastern Kentucky in 1964 to promote his War on Poverty. But when he did, he opened a wound that remains raw today. People in the region say they're tired of ...

Appalachia: Mountains of Poverty. Holmes Rolston III. Christianity Today March 27, 1964 issue ... tends to oppose change,” commented a leading magazine recently featuring Appalachia.

Book review: Another wave of fixation with interpreting Appalachia and its uses has cropped up in the media. Two recent books "talk back" to the current revival of Appalachian culture of poverty ...

A Monitor correspondent, who grew up in West Virginia, discusses the poverty she's seen firsthand while working as a journalist in Africa.

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 the War on Poverty. Instead, she got an earful.