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#rural poverty
  • Activism
    Cleaning Up America's 'Dirty Secret' in the Black Belt
    September 5, 2017
    | Gail Ablow
    In rural Alabama, Catherine Coleman Flowers took on a problem no one was touching: environmental injustice.
  • Activism
    The Poor Aren't Involved in Politics. Can Activists Change That?
    June 22, 2017
    | John Light
    Organizers hope to amplify the voices of those who will be hit hardest by Trump's policies.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump’s Budget Cuts Will End an Economic Lifeline
    April 5, 2017
    | James Trimarco
    The Appalachian Regional Commission helps to create jobs and improve economic fortunes of “distressed counties” in West Virginia and Kentucky.
  • Inequality
    'Rich Hill' and a Vanishing American Dream
    August 25, 2014 | Updated January 6, 2015
    | Stephen Pimpare
    Watch this award-winning documentary about three teenaged boys growing up in a small town in Missouri that sheds light on rural, white poverty on PBS Video.
  • Republicans Meddle With Summer Meals Programs
    June 10, 2014
    | Christine Binder and Rebekah Gowler
    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.
  • Inequality
    Children in America's Schools
    April 27, 1996 | Children in America’s Schools
    Bill Moyers takes us on a journey through our nation's public schools, revealing the savage inequalities in American education.


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