A former elementary teacher describes some ways she worked to meet students’ physical and social-emotional needs while ...

H.R. 1 will devastate Medicaid, but Kentucky can protect thousands of residents, particularly those at highest risk, while ...

Cuts to food assistance, scheduled to begin Nov. 1, will hit the nation’s poor hard and its rural poor the hardest.

Congress added a $50 billion rural health fund to ease concerns about hospital closures tied to record Medicaid cuts. But experts and researchers say the money won’t prevent serious losses for West ...

Stephen C. “Steve” Cawood, an Eastern Kentucky lawyer who championed coal miners, clean water and better schools, died Oct.

The Trump Administration is preparing a proposal that could reduce eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI ...

A new report suggests that the Trump Administration is preparing a proposal that would sharply limit access to Social ...

Poverty has always left its mark — not just in statistics or history books, but in the weary faces of those who lived through ...

We have all heard the term “Appalachia” or “Appalachian” — but few know the true origins of the word and how it has evolved ...