MarketPlace, February 23, 2016: Fighting poverty and opiate addiction in rural communities
“In America’s rural communities, poverty, health and education gaps, and a striking increase in opiate addition are challenging social services and the budget. News of the increasing numbers of deaths among middle-aged Americans and the high rates of opiate overdoses are in the news, and since 2011, the Obama administration’s Rural Poverty Coalition has been tackling the multi-generational issues that come with providing social services to rural America.”