re: Interesting article on poverty in Appalachia

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frick raising money for Africa when there's people living in shacks with no running water, hollowed out school buses, and barely standing trailers just down the road. Our own people are shut out of proper healthcare and dental care, access to the internet, access to education, high tech training or even advanced skills training, and then to even be able to get an entry level job at 1 of the 3 Fortune 500 companies in NW Arkansas,

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What a ridiculous statement.

Our poor have access to health care, dental, housing, food, and all the education they are willing to access via the federal dime.

The reason people go on mission trips to help the poor is because the poor in some of those places have no safety net, little access to water, sometimes have famine and little medical care.

If you're starving in the USA, you are simply avoiding the help that's there. Hell, the homeless here in Juneau eat better than the average American did 70 years ago.