After the check is gone: The underground economy of rural America
Not sure why this is an article.  This is just normal life in many parts of rural America from Pennsylvania to Washington to Arizona.When I lived in West Virginia, I did note that the Washington Post had a weird fascination with the place.  Whenever things got slow, you could expect some big exposé about what a bunch of uneducated, dirty bumpkins we were.WaPo even once held a contest to come up with a new slogan for West Virginia when it didn't like seeing "Almost Heaven" on the license plates.  The winner was "Almost Haiti."