Over 5 million children in the United States live in what the federal government designates as “persistent poverty” counties.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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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 ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The number of Appalachians living in poverty last year increased slightly. U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday show that 13.3 million people lived in poverty in 2007 ...

POVERTY Misery of VortexBathed in the unforgiving harshness of massed TV lights, Senator Robert F. Kennedy pounded a table to still the chatter of shabby, tieless white folk crowded into the one-room ...

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 ...