Tell Congress You Care About Appalachian Poverty!
President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964 started the "war on poverty". Today some 44 years later parts of Appalachian are still in deep poverty.
In some areas of Appalachia, as many as 16.8 percent of the homes are classified as substandard. That is, it has more people than rooms and is without indoor plumbing.
Sixteen counties in central and eastern Kentucky are included on the most recent U.S. Census Bureau list of the 100 poorest counties in the nation.
Rates of poverty among children under the age of 18 in Appalachian Kentucky range from 17 percent in some counties to as high as 56.4 percent in others.
Owsley County KY ranks as the seventh poorest county in the country with 56.4% of the children living in poverty.
Stand up and tell congress its time to renew the war on poverty and do something to rage it in Appalachia!
On January 8th 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson started the
"War Poverty". Today many people of Appalachia still live in poverty. In fact some areas of Appalachia are in more poverty today then back then. We the petition signers would like for you, our congress to stand up and finsh this war.
