What does the average
coal miner make (wages per hour)?
$25 per hour
Who are some types of
people a person might find in the big, “White Ghetto.”
Poor families
Why do you think the
author calls it the “Big White Ghetto.”
98.5% of the population is white
What does the author
suggests “keeps the underclass in place?”
Welfare was helping to make the Appalachia into a huge
housing project
The author suggests
that “poverty is the natural condition ____
_______ ________ _______.”
Of the human animal
How does Pepsi play
into this?
They let people mess with there products
List five
things/facts you took away from this article.
- People use there children to get money
- One of the counties had a really high unemployment rate
- People use others that are dumb for there own fun
- Coal mining is going west
- These areas get to be so bad that people die easier