The number of rural Americans living in poverty has skyrocketed in recent years amidst an economic evolution that has cost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and mining jobs. Poverty rates have ...

The Obama administration is set to tackle the persistent and chronic issue of rural poverty. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told USA TODAY Tuesday that the administration is set to unveil pilot ...

[imgbelt img=2009Poverty528.jpg]Poverty rates in rural America are higher than in urban or exurban counties, and these rates have gone up in the recession. But there are large regional differences ...

Loraine ISD helps homeless students cope, but few other public resources are available for youth in Texas’ remote Big Country. On a blustery, 40-degree night in December, a Christmas tree lights up 19 ...

[imgbelt img=2008PovertyCountiesMap528.jpg]The difference in poverty rates between rural and urban counties narrowed in the 1990s and through the first few years of this century. From 2003 to 2008, ...

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 ...

Dan Brockington received funding from the DfID / ESRC Growth Research Programme to conduct this work, and gratefully acknowledges that funding. The grant reference is ES/L012413/2. One of the clearest ...

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 question almost stumped Deborah Smith-Olson, the chairwoman and CEO of Lake-Osceola State Bank. If someone didn’t go to college, what could they do for a living in Baldwin, a small town in the ...