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Appalachian Schools are Helping Isolated Students Go to College. Here’s How.
We are used to a certain narrative about concentrated poverty and education: it takes place in the inner city, features students of color, and often includes a supporting role for public housing...
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I Was Homeless in Rural America. Here’s How to Help Families Like Mine.
After we packed what was left of our belongings into our rusted-out minivan, my siblings and I loaded in to avoid the rain. We squeezed in among the garbage bags full of clothes, the kitchen...
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Where the Internet Doesn’t Reach
“I don’t mean to alarm you,” my friend said just before I visited her home in the hills of rural, Southeastern Ohio, “but there’s no bathroom out here. There’s no running water.” And the driveway, she...
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Rural Americans Have Less Access to Books. There’s a Way to Fix That.
When I lived in rural Arizona, we were tucked away on sloping acreage, surrounded by mountains and scrubby desert. Twenty miles from the nearest town, we lacked basic services that many of my...
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Trump’s Budget Breaks His Promise to “Put Miners Back to Work”
For the past year, Donald Trump has promised that he will “put our miners back to work” and pull coal country out a decades-long decline. Appalachian voters clearly believed him—they showed up for...
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Hospitals Are Leaving Rural America. Rural Americans Are Staying Put.
Kendra Colburn spent a decade uninsured. During those years, she worked as a carpenter near her hometown in rural Vermont, earning just enough that she didn’t qualify for low-income health care, but...
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Ohio Is Hoarding Money Meant for Poor Families
Last September, a bipartisan coalition of approximately 70 mayors across 13 counties in Appalachian Ohio had an idea: With so many people thrown off cash assistance (TANF) by the state in recent years,...
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