In fact, in my line of work is with low income families, and I see poverty as a very complex issue.

Unfortunately it doesn't matter where you live, the poor are getting poorer.

There is a special on mountain top removal now playing on Showtime; the exploitation of Appalachia by outside interests, whole communities disappearing, poisoning the drinking water, taking large tracts of land by emminent domain,etc. Fess Parker Wineries wants to put vineyards on the flattened mountains, the coal companies forced the sale of the land, are finished with it, still trying to get a piece of the action, looks this this will fall through because of greed, could put thousands to work; so goes the ways of Appalachia.

Did you tell me that cabanaben? Lord knows everyone in this household thinks I don't listen, but it's the overload of my brain's circuitry as opposed to that. And the fact that I'm required to juggle a part time job with the full time job of keeping up two properties and anything else that comes up, and you know I'm extremely stressed and worried lately.
Anyway, it sounds really good and something that I'd like to watch. Thanks for mentioning it to me via a media you know I concentrate on.

Two years ago my family went on a road trip from Michigan to Tennessee. Hub and I enjoy back roads and off the beaten path type stuff. The best food is ALWAYS in little, local dives!

Anyway, my family were "rednecks" and hillbillies and my heart breaks when you see the poverty and the sense of giving up.

What is sadder is that there are many little towns in Michigan that are just as striken.

Meanwhile, we pour BILLIONS into the inner city and leave these folks to eke by on their own.