From poverty-stricken to remote jobs leader: how connectivity transformed a rural Kentucky county

It’s old school meets modern technology, a tale that starts with a mule named Bub and ends (for now) with good-paying jobs, a reversal of outmigration and hope in Jackson County, formerly one of the most impoverished areas of the U.S. Keith Gabbard, CEO of the People’s Rural Telephone Cooperative helped make it happen, and he joins us this week to tell the incredible tale.

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