A Silent Problem

I started thinking about how people within the United States are missing out on an education. Most of the time people think that everybody in the US has access to an education. This is all true. The Appalachian Mountains is one of the poorest places in the US. The people who live are descendents of miners. As the mines are being shut down it is leaving them without any income. The schools then suffer too. Without families bringing money into the house the children are less likely to go to school since they will have to work to support the family. The most abundant jobs available in the mountains are in the mines but when the mines shut down there are no more jobs. It is a cycle that does not end.
Almost every person there does not know who to read or write. This made working in the mines easy. When working in the mine they did not have to know how to read and write. They learned how to mine from their fathers and their fathers pasted it down to them.
Since the people of the Appalachians do not have the tools to get an education it prevents them from getting higher paying jobs. Once they got higher paying jobs it would allow them to get better health care. The health care for people there is minimal. Most of them have to wait for an annual health fair to get basic medical treatment. Even then some of the people do not receive treatment due to the high demand for help.
The Appalachians are the most forgotten area within the US. When you think of the poorest areas in the States Virginia, North Carolina, and West Virginia do not come to mind. More people need to start becoming aware of the problem in the Appalachians. One way to help this problem is by supplying books and teachers to the little villages in the mountains. The more awareness people have the more help the Appalachian citizens will receive.