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

Across the nation, Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health care, and in rural America, residents disproportionately rely on the public insurance program. But Medicaid cuts in the ...

When she arrived in 2006, up to 30 women might deliver babies daily in a worn-torn hospital with a single midwife.​​ Now, MHI ...

Belinda McLoyd, 64, has been thinking about peanut butter. She receives a small monthly payment through the federal ...

Republican majorities in both houses of Congress have now approved President Donald Trump’s clawback of about $9 billion for ...

Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Barn Raiser. Rural families like mine are still grappling with the ...

Rural healthcare access isn't simply a matter of miles. It’s a complex web of economic, structural, cultural and ...

For decades, policymakers claimed to expand college access. In reality, they rerouted poor students into the least valuable ...

To be fair, a lot of people will benefit from President Trump’s bill. Wealthy taxpayers will have larger estate tax ...

"Defunding public media doesn’t punish NPR — it guts the emergency lifelines that small towns and Tribal communities depend ...

More than $1 billion in cuts to public media could devastate rural radio and TV stations. Dina Polkinghorne of KZYX, a public station serving 90,000 in Mendocino County, joins us to discuss what's at ...

Rural America, long served primarily by local stores and established retailers, is now the focus of a $1 trillion opportunity ...