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Trump’s budget would cut funding for Appalachia — and his allies in coal country are livid 2017-03-18 12:23:51 Post No. 123073
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Trump’s budget would cut funding for Appalachia — and his allies in coal country are livid
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2017-03-18 12:23:51
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>So it’s striking that President Trump’s first budget proposal would slash and burn several key programs aimed at promoting economic development in coal regions — most notably, the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Economic Development Administration. In recent years, these programs have focused on aiding communities that have been left behind as mining jobs vanished.
>First, Trump’s proposing to eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), an independent agency set up in 1965 “to address the persistent poverty and growing economic despair of the Appalachian Region.” Since October 2015, the ARC has invested $175.7 million in 662 projects around the region, with a disproportionate focus on “distressed” counties and coal towns. In some places, that means new highways or broadband infrastructure. In others, it means grants to help former coal communities develop, say, outdoor recreation industries instead.
>A government review estimated that, last year, the ARC created or saved at least 23,000 jobs and provided 25,500 households with infrastructure services such as water or broadband. There have been criticisms of the program over the years — it’s odd to have a standalone agency for this one region, and the ARC often focuses on bigger towns and neglects rural areas — but it’s also broadly popular with Democrats and Republicans alike in Appalachia.
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>Second, Trump is proposing to zero out the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which sits within the Commerce Department and provides about $250 million per year in grants to support economic growth in certain regions. During the Obama years, the EDA began devoting a sizable portion of that money to coal communities around the country that were suffering economically as cheap natural gas and new air pollution rules shriveled the coal industry. (The EDA also supports non-coal communities, providing trade adjustment assistance and other services.)
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>vox
Why don't you try posting from occupy democrats next time
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>>123389
I've read through his entire budget proposal and he does indeed propose to entirely eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission. That has nothing to do with partisan bias. It is his stated budgetary objective. I've had to work with some of ARC's geographical data while conducting academic research. They actually are a very important entity in the region, and I think it's hilarious that all the Trump voters in the region thought he was going to help them and now he's fucking them in the ass like any intelligent person knew that he would. Appalachia still has a lot of problems with development and infrastructure. This isn't even considering how the current GOP replacement bill will fuck every poor idiot that lives here that relies on Medicaid when it freezes enrollment and then blasts up premiums for old folks.
It's terribly sad that these people have allowed the GOP to manipulate them into a situation where they are about to get royally fucked.
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>>123431
Full disclosure: I am a poor idiot that has been on medicaid my entire life. I expect to lose my coverage. It's gnarly. It blows my mind that people in Appalachia support the GOP so heavily. They do nothing but fuck us.
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>>123431
They'll still blame the dems. Just you wait.
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