‘Not enough jobs.’ Nine of the 30 poorest counties in U.S. are in Eastern Kentucky, By Bill Estep, December 3, 2017, Lexington Herald-Leader: “The poverty rates in nine Eastern Kentucky counties were among the 30 highest in the nation in 2016, according to new U.S. Census Bureau estimates…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty