Politics
Left Behind by Trump’s Boom: The Rural Americans Who Elected Him
- Countryside missing out on recovery as jobs reappear elsewhere
- It’s ‘real rough’ in east Kentucky as cuts to food-stamps loom
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Tiffany Hensley’s drive home takes her through some picturesque scenery, and an ugly economy.
“The first thing you see when you get down here is beauty,” says Hensley, midway through her shift at a diner in the rolling hills of eastern Kentucky. “But then you get to looking around. It’s real rough.’’