A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.

Coal jobs are disappearing, but Brandon Dennison’s innovative nonprofit, Coalfield Development Corporation, is doing more than just putting people in southern West Virginia back to work.

Donald Trump's tax plan punishes single parents with low to moderate incomes.

The Appalachian Regional Commission helps to create jobs and improve economic fortunes of “distressed counties” in West Virginia and Kentucky.

In a time of so many challenges in coal country, his courage has given a generation of coal miners, Appalachians and community activists a reason to believe.

What is living in poverty if not constantly being creative?

In a region dominated by coal companies and privatized prisons, activist Amelia Kirby charts a new path for her community.

The latest agriculture bill before the House continues the practice of building policies that perpetuate racial inequities without actually naming race, write two anti-hunger activists.

There's no tougher ground for building an environmental-justice movement than the Appalachian counties of central Pennsylvania.

If human history is replete with people committing atrocities against one another in the name of God, is our democracy strong enough to remedy these tendencies?