Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in states like Mississippi, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Yet the rate of poverty is significantly higher in rural America than it is in urban America.

More than one in four children live in poverty in this rural Southern state. From 2011 to 2013, 16.7% of Alabama households were food insecure, meaning they struggled to provide enough food for ...

The latest edition of the nonprofit Rural School and Community Trust’s 50-state report on rural education reveals that nearly 1 in 6 of the nation’s 7.5 million students living in rural areas lives ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress ... where pay is often lower and poverty higher than average. Land ownership is changing, leaving more communities with outsiders wielding ...

The phone rang over the whine of Trey Yates' butter churn. The person calling was polite, but the message was devastating: ...

Research within this pillar aimed to identify the global impacts of reforms that appear to be a particularly high priority and to generate new research that can provide guidance on the policy reforms ...

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 ...