...AP Stress Index. Tourism is already a $29 billion a year industry in the Appalachia, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal agency created in 1963 by President John. F. Kennedy to fight poverty. But too much of that...

...button from rubbing your backbone." Even so, the bigger problem facing most of the region is obesity. An Appalachian Regional Commission study last year showed that the mountain region had higher rates of premature deaths caused by heart disease...

...creation of a federal program, similar to the Appalachian Regional Commission, which will coordinate the effort to raise...same results. Nearly 38 years after the Appalachian Regional Commission began, more than half of the counties in...

...29,069. It is the only Pennsylvania county that still qualifies as distressed under the criteria of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency founded by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s to send aid to 13 states. Nowhere is the situation...

...nearly $2 billion to be spent on two Great Society dinosaurs -- the Economic Development Agency and the Appalachian Regional Commission. These so-called job-creating agencies overlap many other programs with the same mission. Ronald Reagan...

...according to the AP Stress Index. Tourism is a $29 billion a year industry in Appalachia, according to the Appalachian Regional Commission, a federal agency created in 1963 by President Kennedy to fight poverty. But too much is concentrated in...

...unemployment. "These are jobs that can't be outsourced," Gov. Mark R. Warner said Thursday. The Appalachian Regional Commission is giving the money to bring the artisans together and build a strategy for collectively marketing their...

...more than pay for itself in long run." On the Net: Sen. Zell Miller: http://miller.senate.gov/ Appalachian Regional Commission: http://www.arc.gov/

...year and have been using them in every class. The technology was paid for by a $320,000 grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission, which provides money for economic development and infrastructure improvements in 13 Appalachian states...

...mountainous terrain in 13 states from New York to Mississippi. Jesse White, the federal representative to the Appalachian Regional Commission, said the study would bolster the agency's arguments when it asks Congress for money to finish the system...