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Podcast: Inside Appalachia
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A Sense of What’s Possible: A Struggle to Stay Follow-Up
Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:56:41
Publish Date: 2018-11-23 12:00:00
Description: This week we’ll revisit an episode that originally aired earlier this spring about two young people who are learning farming as part of a workforce development program called Refresh Appalachia. We'll also get an update on where Colt Brogan and Crystal Snyder are today. The federal government has tried for years to encourage economic growth in this region, from President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty that launched more than 50 years ago to federally-funded retraining programs for displaced coal miners and their families. The Appalachian Regional Commission approved more than $150 million for economic development in 2017 alone. Crystal and Colt spent two and a half years as farming apprentices with Refresh Appalachia, a job-training program with the nonprofit Coalfield Development Corporation , based in southern West Virginia. The organization’s five apprenticeship programs teach skills like carpentry and solar panel installation, and participants can work toward their associate’s
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