Washington, DC, June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New data released today by the Appalachian Regional Commission in the 14th annual update of The Appalachian Region: A Data Overview from the 2018-2022 ...
In 2009, Maddie McGarvey first visited 3-year-old Paige Casto and her family in a southeast Ohio town to take photos for a college photography class. Then, for the next 15 years, she returned to ...
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 ...
This is definitely one of the most tragic places in the country. Your idea of poverty is probably different from mine. But out here is on another level. I’m not sure if they know or even care how poor ...
While Ohio University does a good job integrating Appalachian culture and history into the institution through research ...
A cross-sectional analysis of the federal NPPES registry found that 65.5 percent of Appalachian counties have no dermatologist, with the most economically distressed counties almost entirely devoid of ...
WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance painted a vivid picture of Appalachia in his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.” One of rural poverty mired in a substance-abuse epidemic, but also one centered on family ...
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 ...
In Appalachia, mental health challenges are a present reality shaped by the conditions of everyday life. At Christian Appalachian Project (CAP), we see mental health needs firsthand in the families ...
Maddie McGarvey has photographed Appalachian Ohio for her entire career. (Photo courtesy of Maddie McGarvey) Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the ...