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Appalachia poverty persists despite long effort
The 1960s welfare expansion fails to lift Appalachia. Thomas Ward, coal miner turned farmer, relies on $130 monthly welfare and $180 in food stamps while most jobs vanished. In Bottom Creek, poverty endures amid dilapidated homes, pollution, and limited local progress. West Virginia faces high welfare rolls and outmigration as officials including J. D. Rockefeller IV push anti poverty work through Head Start and community programs.
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