In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Kentucky's Martin County to declare war on poverty. The following year he signed the Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating a state-federal partnership to improve the region's economic prospects through better job opportunitie…
Nearly half a century after the signing of the Appalachia Regional Development Act (ARDA), this research explores many questions: How has Appalachia fared since the signing of the ARDA in 1965? Does it compare to the nation as a whole in key categories such as education, employm…
In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making permanent a small pilot project called the Food Stamp Program (FSP). By 2013, the program's fiftieth year, more than one in seven Americans received benefits at a cost of nearly $80 billion. Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…