Campaign seeks to build a ‘coalition of the rejected’ in Eastern KentuckyRep. Michael Meredith speaks on pension crisis in Frankfort

Underpaid farmworkers in the Mississippi Delta and unemployed coal miners in Eastern Kentucky would not appear to have much in common, separated by race, geography, economics, and often, politics. But poor and exploited people have more similarities than differences and ought to work together for basic rights like jobs, healthcare and education, says a North…