Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, ...

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 an old ranch house that serves as the headquarters of the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative, Jason Baldes greets federal officials and others with doughnuts and coffee. It is his second stop of ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Rural areas of the U.S. that have long been viewed as a refuge for affordable homeownership are now grappling with rising prices, limited inventory and increasing competition — pressures once thought ...

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, ...

Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural in 39 ...

Back in the days before child labor laws — and before it became conventional wisdom that no young person could develop proper character without playing two dozen sports, mastering three instruments ...

After rural voters turned out big for Donald Trump, a narrative emerged that rural America was made up of majority White communities who used to vote reliably Democratic but had shifted right. The ...