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  • Kentucky has a “Kid Workforce” labor crisis. It’s the focal point of the essay that begins Kentucky Youth Advocates’ 33rd Annual “Kids Count Data Book.”
  • Gurney Norman, master of the short story, and outspoken advocate for the people of Appalachian Kentucky, was raised in the Alais Coal Camp in Perry County, Kentucky, and educated at the Robinson School in nearby Blackey, Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and Stanford University.
  • Sam Dick travels to Lexington to meet a long-time hotel employee
  • Sam Dick travels to Lexington to learn how Middle school students learn real-world science from restaurant scraps and their reuse.
  • This week on Eastern Standard, how the changing climate and extreme weather is forcing up the cost of property insurance.
  • "We have to quit whispering about it” —Yvette Hourigan, Executive Director of the Kentucky Lawyers Assistance Program, on the stigma that prevents us from talking openly about suicide.
  • With bourbon sales booming there is pressure on a key resource: the white oak. Eastern Standard’s Crystal Jones reports.
  • The lockdown and isolation conditions of the pandemic worsened existing student mental health issues and introduced others.
  • A Kentucky writer developed an award-winning collection of animated stories of women dealing with PTSD.
  • The 8th episode of RISE, the Eastern Standard documentary series, focuses on a proposed US Forest Service logging project in the Jellicos, part of the Cumberland Mountains in the Daniel Boone National Forest on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.
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