The original ARC prioritized several types of projectsa new highway system, water and sanitation improvements, tourism and education. The answers lie in economics. Across the country, minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation, and in this part of Appalachia, few industries have come in to fill the gaps left behind by declining coal and manufacturing. Economy. The overall share of Appalachians in poverty declined 2.4 percentage points between 2011-2015 and 2016-2020. H\We
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Where no man who wants work will fail to find it. One student, whose high school band had serenaded Johnson that day, recalled the speech many years later in an interview with Compass, an Ohio University publication: We didnt know we were poor until Lyndon told us we were.. So, people here decided to organize an Appalachian Rennaissance in the 1960s where the people were filled with regional pride and made aware of the fact that the town they live in, was the first one to have emerged from the mountains. We know he probably wont be able to afford another. Today, the Apps still represent a place of hope. Among Johnsons other stops were an auto mechanics class at Kentuckys Mayo State Vocational and Technical School (where his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, visited the trainee beauticians), and the Riverside Apartment complex, on a bank of the Tennessee River in Knoxville, where the New York Times reported that he spoke with several residents, including those who were no longer able to work due to disability.