NC's Healthy Opportunities Program, "model for nation," helping rural areas with food, housing, utilities, could be expanded ...

Do you live in a rural area? For most of us, that question is relatively easy to answer. We can simply look outside of our windows and make an assessment.

The United States is in the midst of a ... all across the U.S., but particularly in rural areas, as a way of bettering teacher retention. For example, in Colorado, about 60% of school districts ...

As experts in rural health and policy at the Center for Rural and Migrant Health at Purdue University, we work with people across the United States to build resilient ... require funding that is at ...

For example, only 34 percent of all rural students in the United States have access to a private school. What’s more, unlike public schools, private schools lack accountability and are not ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump ...

In her recent memoir, Brea Baker talks about the lasting impact of land loss for Black farmers and the case for reparations.

"Rural houselessness is very much an issue in the United States, and there are unique challenges ... In Kentucky, for example, the researchers counted up to five times as many people experiencing ...

Health care is notoriously more difficult to provide for rural communities than urban ones. Rural Americans are less likely to have a health care provider they trust and have more difficulty ...

Advocates say interstate compacts, which allow professionals to use their work licenses in multiple states, can solve Texas’ workforce shortage. Skeptics fear Texas would send more workers than it ...

This challenge is particularly acute in rural and underserved areas ... reporting anesthesia staffing shortages in the United States rose from 35% in early 2020 to 78% in late 2022, according ...