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The natural gas boom was supposed to bring prosperity to West Virginians in poverty. That didn’t happen

In between shifts at low-income jobs, West Virginians in natural gas country braved the late August heat and lined up at a New Martinsville church in Wetzel County to pick up canned food, frozen meat and back-to-school clothing. Some drove more than an hour to get there.  Grandparents with custody of their grandchildren, single mothers […]

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