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Our daughter has gone to work in McDowell county WV and has a different perspective.  Before she went, I did a little research.  My aunt Helen went to War, WV to teach school after she retired for Kanawha County schools.  The reason then was because she saw education as the only way out of the hit and miss economy of the coal fields.  Today over 25% of the residents of McDowell County are disabled.  The reason is black lung disease caused from inhaling coal dust.  These people struggle to breath and are not able to do much in the way of exertion.  However, there are two big changes coming about: the first is the awareness of the local students needing a higher education to find meaningful work.  The second is the population has gone down.  It is really hard to "leave home" to find work, and it often takes help that is not available to facilitate relocating.  When Muncie, IN was booming in the early sixties there were 60,000 jobs and only 30,000 workers, so every kid from Kentucky and Tenn who came here could find a good job.  Now 50 years later, the jobs are gone the plants closed and rusting or being torn down and the children have had to move to find work.  Some say the unions caused this others say greedy management just moved the jobs to cheap labor markets,  makes no difference they are gone.  The Unions have all but gone but the corporate greed has escalated.  Think its bad now, wait till foreign interests own all of our water rights and the only water will have a high price tag or rain barrel as its origin. 

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