The importance of rural health research and lessons learned are shared by University at Buffalo investigators and their community partners. “In New York State, rural poverty is a long and ongoing ...

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced today a long-awaited plan to reorganize the USDA and its seven mission areas that are staffed with nearly 100,000 employees in ...

What makes a community rural? That’s a question the Federal Subsistence Board has grappled with for years. In past policy, the board weighed population size against factors like industrial development ...

Landscape around Kenyon College, the host of the February 18th, 2021 panel, entitled “The Future of Rural America under President Biden.” (Photo by Daniel Napsha) Rural perspectives should be present ...

The United States Department of Education has placed an increased emphasis on rural communities and the outcomes of students, partly driven by declining numbers regarding student performance outcomes ...

Americans have been drawn to rural areas in recent years partly due to the appeal of a higher quality of life. These regions have not traditionally been known as art hubs, but some residents say that ...

Getting broadband internet access to rural areas has been a goal for rural advocates and service providers alike for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made such access more important than ever.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) recently announced a dozen grants for rural communities, and strategists within the Democratic Party say it’s one way the Biden-Harris Administration is ...

The Jamaica Ministry of Tourism, its agencies and industry partners will seek to further raise awareness about the transformative impact of tourism on rural communities through the observance of ...

Sixty million Americans, including Vermonters, live in the countryside. That's one-fifth of the nation. Yet through this lengthy political season, we have heard little about the needs of rural America ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The University of Kansas has opened a new branch of its medical school -- for only eight students ...

In the process, China uses about 7 percent of the world's arable land to feed about one-fifth of the global population, a ...