'One of the people who went to my high school made money by getting food with food stamps, selling it discounted to families in the area needing a cheap meal, then using the resulting money for the basis of a 'buyer/seller' job for tax purposes paying for food he actually ate from the welfare, not food stamps, he got. 'The New York Times found that some parents here take their kids out of literacy classes to keep $700 disability benefits coming in,' Anonymous says. Many countries are experiencing economic problems associated with the pandemic and supply chain shortages, but none is in such a bad position as the UK. So the only option left for many residents is to use - and yes, sometimes abuse - welfare. Nobody's really stepped in to replace those jobs. At that time, unemployment there had reached nearly 13 percent. Clay County, for example, employed only 54 people during the first quarter of 2014 in its once obscene mines. As a result, production has dropped dramatically.

Unfortunately, expensive, non-renewable energy that slowly transforms the planet into a circle of Hell has fallen out of favor for some reason. In its heyday, Eastern Kentucky was ride or die for the coal industry. Some just come up to you and ask in the accent where they can get moonshine and chitlins and grits. We apparently have thick accents, and some of these people laugh at the counter when they hear it. People from the South and Midwest are usually fine, but people from the East Coast tend to gawk. We tend to hang around a gas station or restaurant a lot, and we get travelers coming in from all over the place. 'I have a bachelor's degree from the University Of Kentucky, but many of my friends don't have more than a high school degree. Our anonymous source has been in Eastern Kentucky for all of his life, and he told us:

While there is some backing to it - only 17 percent have a college degree and only around 40 percent have a high school diploma - not everyone is some backwoods hillfolk who spends the days squealing at tourists.

Whenever people visit Eastern Kentucky, they automatically assume that the residents are just a bunch of uneducated hillbillies.

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