Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Schoolchildren, seniors, grocers and even farmers ...

From hospital closures in rural America to soaring child care costs, policy failures are squeezing poor households. A moral ...

People listen to a sermon before being admitted to lunch at the Hope Center, which assists homeless and addicted residents in Hagerstown, Md. Experts say Medicaid cuts will exacerbate rural ...

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 ...

In its August poll, ActiVote found that 59 percent of rural Americans approved of Trump while 37 percent disapproved of the president. This gave him a net approval rating of +22 points. However, in ...

Education researchers warn budget proposals from the White House and House Republicans would impose steep cuts on some of the ...

Access to high-quality health care is essential everywhere. However, it takes on a whole new meaning in rural areas, which often have greater medical needs and fewer resources. In regions where ...

Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal government could help. Rural emergency hospitals can get extra funding, ...

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 11, No. 2, U.S. Census 2020: Continuity and Change, Part II (JANUARY 2025), pp. 88-114 (28 pages) This article uses recently ...

While the South grew the most in absolute numbers of rural population, the largest percentage growth was in the Interior Northwest, made up of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. A biker rides along the Big ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (STATELINE) - Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program ...

Access to high-quality healthcare is essential everywhere. However, it takes on a whole new meaning in rural areas, which often have greater medical needs and fewer resources. In regions where ...