Poor rural counties have a higher rate of Covid-19 infection than the rest of rural and urban America, according to the latest “Rural America at a Glance,” the annual snapshot of rural conditions ...

Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) living in rural and impoverished areas face a significantly higher risk of dying from CRC. Previous research has shown that patients living in ...

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

RALEIGH, N.C. − A growing homeless crisis has been stretching to far-flung corners of the Tar Heel State, with tent encampments popping up in rural areas and demand for social services spiking in ...

IOWA, USA — Iowa is leading America's rural transportation system crisis, according to a new report from TRIP, a national transportation research nonprofit. The report, Rural Connections: Examining ...

The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined during the five-year period ending in 2022, though several rural counties saw their share of poor residents increase, according to new U.S.