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Why US should not abandon its debt to Appalachia • Kentucky Lantern

The region's most economically distressed counties are in the coalfields of Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky's Letcher County, above, as fog settles on Aug. 23, 2019. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)The Trump administration’s proposal to slash Appalachian Regional Commission funding by 93% — from over $200 million to just $14 million — threatens to dismantle one of the last federal bridges to the region. This drastic cut comes a…

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