The following article by Noam N. Levey was posted on the Los Angeles Times website July 6, 2017:
Communities like this aging West Virginia coal town along the Kanawha River were key to President Trump’s victory last year; more than two-thirds of voters in surrounding Fayette County backed the Republican nominee.
Now, families in this rural county and hundreds like it that supported Trump face the loss of a critical safety net for children as congressional Republicans move to cut hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade from Medicaid, the half-century-old government health plan for the poor. Continue reading “Kids in pro-Trump rural areas have a lot to lose if GOP rolls back Medicaid”