Rural areas throughout the world are poor. Rural Indiana is not going to ever again have such a high relative standard of living at it did fifty years ago. Appa

Rural areas throughout the world are poor. Rural Indiana is not going to ever again have such a high relative standard of living at it did fifty years ago. Appalachian communities don't have anything highly productive to offer; resource extraction doesn't require much labor anymore. The jobs aren't coming back. If you don't want so many poor, we need to let them move to where the jobs are and will continue to be.