Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

Over 1,500 new data centers are in development nationwide. Most will be built in rural areas, particularly the South and Midwest, marking a shift from urban locations.

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...

Paul Toomey is the President of Geographic Solutions. He's an expert in labor market data, workforce development and unemployment insurance. I see workforce development in rural America at a ...

The USDA Rural Development is a lifeline to economically depressed rural towns where Trump is popular but the Trump Administration has damaged the agency. It's been a turbulent couple of months at the ...