Newcastle University received funding to support this research from Standard Life Foundation, a charity whose objective is to address financial hardship. Mark Shucksmith was principal investigator but ...

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 ...

Mark Shucksmith, professor of planning at Newcastle University, Jane Atterton, senior lecturer and manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland's Rural College and Jayne Glass, researcher in ...

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 ...

In Bangladesh, programs targeting ultra-poor, rural households can help families escape extreme poverty. However, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps for most in the developed world, the image of African poverty is a teeming urban slum, such as can be found in Lagos, Kinshasa, or Luanda. Yet, as Professor Leif Brottem discusses, rural ...

Once one of Hollywood’s most adorable child stars, Brandon “Bug” Hall-Barnett, who captured hearts as Alfalfa in the 1994 ...