Progressive Democrats of America and Rural Urban Bridge Initiative have co-authored a policy paper laying out a set of strategies to revitalize the economy in rural areas through “federal investment ...

Most policy is designed for urban places, based on research in urban places. What about rural America? As the federal government looks to cut costs, we must advocate for research that represents rural ...

The Rural Schools Association of New York State advocates for the needs of rural and small school districts, working to assure they have the resources and staffing to support students. Executive ...

President Jimmy Carter carries a peanut plant as he follows his wife Rosalynn from the field at their Webster County, Georgia, farm on August 19, 1978. Carter’s approach to rural issues grew from his ...

It’s hard to hate people when you’re working shoulder to shoulder with them on things that matter. Rural versus urban. Red versus blue. Progressives versus centrists. Trump versus the world. Extreme ...

Catherine Coleman Flowers brings Alabama’s Black Belt with her everywhere she goes. She can’t help it. Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, most ...

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is planning to meet with groups around the state to tout ideas that offer farmers different income streams and keep more people in rural Iowa. Vilsack’s first stop was ...

Concord Law School at Purdue Global, Purdue’s online school for working adults, wants to solve the problem of “legal deserts” across the U.S. Up to 40% of U.S. counties are legal deserts, defined as ...

TYRONE — In rural Pennsylvania, there is about one primary care physician for every 522 residents, compared to the state’s urban areas where that ratio is about one physician for every 222 residents, ...

Rural communities are crucial to the state—and the country. Why do they get so little attention? California gubernatorial ...