Inside Appalachia

The Tough Landscape of Economic Development: Inside Appalachia


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Since the War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal funds to help revitalize coal country have poured in from Washington, D.C. And in recent years, a new federal push has brought millions of dollars worth of funding to projects that are intended to create jobs and retrain people in coal country for work in other fields. There are also a number of state initiatives to help generate job growth. But have these projects worked?
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Inside AppalachiaBy West Virginia Public Broadcasting

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