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Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty

Industry, Wealth, and Poverty in Appalachia

What happens when you don’t own the land, By Chuck Shuford, July 3, 2009, Daily Yonder: “The national broadcast media rarely grapples with the interplay of concentrated wealth and power and the functioning of democracy when it attempts to explain the widespread, stubborn poverty in rural Central Appalachia. ..”