The idea of poverty in America often appears in statistics and shaded maps, but in the ridges and hollows of West Virginia, it is a daily reality. It is not an issue to be debated on Sunday talk shows ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, West Virginia has the nation’s biggest percentage point gain ...
I did not get on a plane or leave the country until I was 15. Where I grew up in West Virginia, not many of my neighbors had passports—most had never left the country. When I got a passport to go on ...