Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Poor rural counties have a higher rate of ...

Employment guarantees must remain demand-driven, flexible during crises, and rooted in local decision-making; VB-G RAM G ...

The Modi government is gutting the rural job “guarantee,” fulfilling a longstanding demand of the most rapacious sections of ...

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

Growing up poor in isolated rural areas and small towns is qualitatively different from growing up poor in the city. Yet most of what experts know about the effects of poverty on children’s ...

As the U.S. heads toward a third peak in the pandemic, rural counties are among the areas most severely affected by Covid-19. While their absolute numbers of cases are still relatively small compared ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

For a brief moment in the summer of 2023, the surprise No. 1 song “Rich Men North of Richmond” focused the country’s attention on a region that often gets overlooked in discussions of the U.S. economy ...

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 in ...

The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined during the five-year period ending in 2022, though several rural counties saw their share of poor residents increase, according to new U.S.