AMES, Iowa – Inflation took a bigger bite of rural household budgets throughout much of 2022, but its effects were similar in rural and urban areas by the end of the year, according to a report by an ...

Rural states are targeting their broadband infrastructure funding toward particular policy goals like advancing health care, workforce development and education, as they dole out millions in federal ...

Internet penetration has grown in rural communities, but the gap between them and suburban and urban communities has remained constant over time. Historically, Internet penetration rates have been ...

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In reality, rural communities are far more varied. Getting these facts right matters because public debates, policies and resources – including money for programs – often rely on these assumptions, ...

Population decline often goes hand-in-hand with economic stagnation in rural areas—and the two reinforce each other in a ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

The United States must build an inclusive narrative of rural communities. Locals attend a Friday night football game in the rural town of Sunny South, Alabama, October 2015. (Getty/Michael S.

State officials have introduced a $1.4 billion plan to improve rural health outcomes over the next five years under the ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — In October, Advance Knox released its draft plan meant to guide decisions on how Knox County could grow over the coming decades. The program also unveiled a proposed future land ...

The political divide between rural and urban America is more cultural than it is economic, rooted in rural residents’ deep misgivings about the nation’s rapidly changing demographics, their sense that ...

Decisions being made over healthcare could shape access and affordability for North Carolinians for years to come.