Nation Gets a Taste of the Hopelessness Gripping Appalachia
New Haven Register › July 31, 2010
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NBC viewers across the country got a glimpse Sunday night of the despair that is choking the life out of Ohio's Appalachia. The "Dateline" special, prepared over nine months by Ann Curry and titled "America Now: Friends and Neighbors," was a heartbreaking hour of television for Ohioans. It was like opening your personal diary to the saddest parts and letting the whole world read:
A high-school whiz kid becomes a 21-year-old mother sleeping in a van with three young children.See the full content of this document
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Nation Gets a Taste of the Hopelessness Gripping Appalachia
Fourteen relatives crowd into one tiny house to survive.
A father who loses one job after another wonders aloud whether he'd be worth more dead than alive to his boys.Fade to images...See the full content of this document
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