Fia Backström explores this nexus of environmental degradation, disaster capitalism, and intergenerational poverty through embodied, compassionate, and durational research.

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 ...

Ohio Senator and author J.D. Vance (in May 2024) and the cover of his book 'Hillbilly Elegy' The memoir, billed as “the true story of what a social, regional and class decline feels like when you were ...

Those living in Appalachia have long been accustomed to the idea there are greater risks to our health here than in many other regions. New research from the American College of Surgeons confirms that ...

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 ...

Oscar Uhalde graduated high school in Athens, and is currently a freshman at Columbia University studying political science. In an age of increasingly shifting demographics, Democrats and Republicans ...

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, ...

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 ...