The Economic Research Service released its annual Rural America at a Glance report, providing a high-level look at social and ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

Could a new approach to defining persistent poverty actually hurt rural communities? A rural American small town with a two-lane paved road and a church steeple. One of the federal government’s key ...

[Part I.] Rural people and their communities: [Ch. 1.] Rural people and their work -- [Ch. 2.] The Negro population of the South -- [Ch. 3.] Rural poverty: the special case of the aged -- [Ch. 4.] ...

As the White House raises the costs of H-1B visas to an unprecedented $100,000, new research finds that rural and high-poverty communities rely the most on international physicians who get the permits ...