Rural activists are ready to take their place and play their part in the coalitions that are forming. Loretta Jasper, left, and Jo Schwartz, wave to a passing vehicle on Buckeye Avenue in downtown ...

It’s hard to hate people when you’re working shoulder to shoulder with them on things that matter. A 94-year-old retired farmer arrives at the Loganville Fireman’s Festival on August 24, 2024. Rural ...

OMAHA — Tyler Sherman, a nurse at a rural Nebraska hospital, is used to the area’s aging farmers delaying care until they end up in his emergency room. Now, with the Trump administration planning ...

Kristin Lunz Trujillo grew up proud of her family’s way of life. She spent summers getting ready to show cattle at the county fair. During the school year, she rushed home after class to feed the ...

First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has called for greater investment in the empowerment of rural communities, describing them as the foundation of national development. First Lady Tinubu made the call in a ...

More students in the United States attend rural schools than the 100 largest school districts combined. Yet rural students lack comparable access to school psychologists and counselors, broadband ...

Amid a population slowdown and housing crisis, California can add another distinction to its list of woes: lackluster job growth. From September 2022 to September 2023, the number of employed people ...

A new online dashboard will allow policymakers in Tennessee to move beyond superficial data and take a deep dive into why certain rural counties struggle, experts at East Tennessee State University ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On National Rural Health Day, The Chartis Center for Rural Health today announced the 2024 Performance Leadership Award recipients. Utilizing the results of the Chartis Rural ...

PERRY, N.Y. (AP) — As a student in western New York’s rural Wyoming County, Briar Townes honed an artistic streak that he hopes to make a living from one day. In high school, he clicked with a college ...