For decades, the Center for Rural Affairs has reported on higher rates of poverty in rural areas. Landmark reports from the Center, including “Half a Glass of Water” and “Trampled Dreams” drew ...

Brooke Perry is an attendance officer and a homeless liaison in Champaign County, Ohio, which is about 45 minutes outside of ...

As part of his eight-state tour focusing on poverty, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is scheduled to stop in rural Kentucky, where writer and rural advocate Dee Davis has witnessed the ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

A 2023 study on access to healthcare in the rural Eastern Cape found that poverty, unemployment, long distances, poor roads ...

Rural poverty in Sri Lanka is frequently highlighted, yet remains unresolved. According to experts, a large portion of the ...

Despite a decline in Colorado’s overall child poverty rate in 2013, the rural child poverty rate remains high and has grown in recent years, according to an article by the Colorado Springs Gazette.

Dan Brockington received funding from the DfID / ESRC Growth Research Programme to conduct this work, and gratefully acknowledges that funding. The grant reference is ES/L012413/2. One of the clearest ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

The report shows that rural poverty declined by 8.5 percentage points during the period, almost double the reduction seen in urban areas (4.6 percentage points). The World Bank attributes this to ...

Nearly two million people are estimated to have fallen into poverty in 2025 as Bangladesh grapples with an economic downturn ...