This essay is the first in a 4-part series I’m calling Rural Health Resilience—a look at the state of rural health in America ...

America’s Rural Poor: Pictures from a World That Many Don’t See Lauren Kaori Gurley November 20, 2015 Allensworth, Calif., has a population of 471 and 54 percent live below the poverty level.

Poverty in America is structural and intentional. And rural poverty, especially so. Rural poverty was formed and compounded by intentional policy choices like the enslavement of pan-African people ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a report this month, “Rural America at a Glance 2015 Edition,” which looks at the statistics on America’s rural economy, including employment, population ...

Voters aren’t tuning out because they don’t care. They’re tuning out because they’ve been exhausted by fake choices, sold out ...

Rural populations have stabilized and are beginning to grow, the Agriculture Department reported earlier this year. Then we learned that rural counties had added more than 250,000 jobs in 2014 and ...

The Kentucky Democrat said around 200,000 people in his state are at risk of losing their health care under the bill.

One of the constants throughout rural America is above-average poverty. As of 2019, 86 percent of the counties with persistent poverty in the United States were rural, according to the USDA’s Economic ...

A report by Save the Children finds the U.S. ranks 36 out of 175 nations when it comes to child poverty. Within the U.S., nearly a quarter of children growing up in rural America were poor in 2016.

The geography of poverty in rural America is changing fast. August 7, 2014 More than 10 years ago Frank Martinez managed to turn things around, but it’s up to his kids to get out.

The author's sister (on lap), mother (left), great-aunt (rear), and great-grandmother in rural Minnesota, circa 1947 (Courtesy of Susan Zerad Garau) “The diversity of voices and experiences in ...