Individuals taxpayers will give the IRS its biggest boost on April 18, so we should know what the government is doing with our money (but that doesn't mean we have to like it).

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

We need a movement for women’s economic freedom.

This especially ugly lie resurfaces periodically like the Loch Ness Monster and the Abominable Snowman and is just as devoid of proof, but at least those fakes are harmless.

Trump insists that environmental protection kills jobs. It doesn't.

In rural communities and small cities across the bellwether state, local politicians are trying to rebuild the party from the ground up.

Unemployment, depopulation and the legacy of slavery in Jefferson County, Mississippi.

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.

It would cut or kill job-training programs, OSHA, the Chemical Safety Board and legal assistance to low-income Americans. You know, the "unnecessary" stuff.

Sarah Jaffe speaks with a labor economist about budget basics, what's next in the process and what you can do, along with the "big gorilla in the room."