With an estimated upwards of one trillion dollars in cuts to the Medicaid program from the One Big Beautiful Bill, healthcare experts and providers predict significant drop in access to services for rural Americans.
Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring.
An open letter to the Democratic National Committee calls for “prioritizing and fixing the Democratic Party’s profound deficits with rural and working-class voters.”
Our grandparents fought for decent wages, safe working conditions, and dignity. How long will we let the new crop of industrialists take away those hard-won rights?
And the effects would ripple across each rural community
Includes Kentucky-specific interactive map
The rural vote, combatting partisanship, and showing up: how a Democratic governor increased his popularity among rural voters.
“We’re becoming the adults in the room. No one else is gonna figure this out for us.”
Grocery stores take a lot of electricity to operate. A REAP grant is helping a rural business in East Kentucky hold down energy costs for the long haul.
Vance wears the term hillbilly like a costume, but I can see through it.
William Turner, author of “Harlan Renaissance,” says JD Vance ignores key players in Appalachian life.
Kentucky’s rules limiting number of healthcare professionals able to diagnose black lung makes applying for compensation by miners increasingly difficult. Currently, the entire state has one pulmonologist legally qualified to assess for the disease.
