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

In an old ranch house that serves as the headquarters of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, Jason Baldes greets federal officials and others with doughnuts and coffee. It is his second stop of ...

Rural America faces many nuanced challenges that impact the well-being and economic vitality of its residents, including lower income, economic restructuring, and an aging population. This demographic ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration. Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

Rural areas of the U.S. that have long been viewed as a refuge for affordable homeownership are now grappling with rising prices, limited inventory and increasing competition — pressures once thought ...

[Part I.] Rural people and their communities: [Ch. 1.] Rural people and their work -- [Ch. 2.] The Negro population of the South -- [Ch. 3.] Rural poverty: the special case of the aged -- [Ch. 4.] ...

Charles Bowers takes long, quick strides down a worn, dirt path and stops in front of a tall thicket of bushes. He lifts a hand to signal that he's spied something. He's leading me on a tour of camps ...

More people living in rural areas of the United States are dying from heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular diseases -- a trend that emerged after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural in 39 ...