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The Last Days of the Appalachian Poverty Tour

By Alison Stine & Rich-Joseph Facun | July 20, 2019

For more than 40 years, Jack Frech has been taking journalists around Athens County, Ohio, showing them how people live in one of the poorest counties in the nation. Now, he says, it’s time to stop.