[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.] ...

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 ...

Downtown Paris, Kentucky on Sept. 7, 2016. By the time I was seven or eight years old, I was keenly aware of my father’s drug use. He didn’t snort pills in front of me yet—he saved that for my teen ...

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 ...

Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central focus: fighting poverty in rural counties. It’s been a longtime focus of ...

Close to 30 percent of seniors in rural America are poor or nearly poor. Government assistance provides a safety net, but it's fragile, especially... Retiring on the Edge of Poverty in Rural America ...

Mr. Pipa is a senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution. In what has become a postelection tradition, there has been no shortage of analysis the past several ...