Why should Appalachians care about Germany’s recent election? Because it looked a whole lot like our own 2016 presidential election. And that’s a bad thing. Appalachian voters were a primary force propelling Donald Trump into the White House. Trump won West Virginia with nearly 70 percent of the vote – […]
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Two recent economic reports paint a discouraging picture of the economic and wage condition of many West Virginians – it’s tough news that West Virginians are sadly accustomed to hearing. But each report includes some off-the-headlines data that may offer promise. First the hard facts: According to the recently released […]
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President Donald Trump won West Virginia and other Appalachian states by promising to bring back the kinds of jobs that once provided a middle class lifestyle. Those jobs were in coal mines, steel mills, chemical plants and manufacturing plants. For a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before […]
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