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Reverend Jackson’s Statement on Appalachia

Tour Press Releases

Tour Schedule

Facts & Figures on the counties we visited

Resources on employment, healthcare, and education issues

Carpenter Ants Join the Tour

These are difficult times for America’s working men and women.The well-paying jobs that built the American middle class continue to be outsourced to cheap foreign labor markets. Affordable healthcare is now out of reach for millions of Americans as corporations cut benefits and the federal government neglects its responsibility to ensure a healthy future for all citizens. The cost of higher education is soaring while funding for primary and secondary schools plummets. More...