Nation Oct 18 Will Promise Zone initiative lift Eastern Kentucky’s coal country out of poverty? By PBS News Hour
Nation Oct 18 National poverty rate drops slightly, but suburban poverty still bleak The poverty rate in the U.S. registered its first drop in the U.S. since 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, falling from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in 2013, but the situation remains bleak in American suburbs. By Megan Thompson