On May 29, 1961, Alderson and Chloe Muncy of Paynesville, West Virginia, became the first recipients of food stamps. It was a ...

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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The agency tasked with waging that war was called the Office of Economic Opportunity, not the Office of Economic Handouts, ...

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 ...

The sick and poor in Appalachia are flocking to free health clinics. They've been left out of the health care debate in Washington. At a recent clinic in southwestern Virginia, hundreds came for ...

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

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 ...