Access to high-quality health care is essential everywhere. However, it takes on a whole new meaning in rural areas, which often have greater medical needs and fewer resources. In regions where ...

Undermining local autonomy — whether in health care or public safety — never serves the people it claims to help. Communities ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (STATELINE) - 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 ...

Rural America has a lawyer shortage. According to an article published by the University of California Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, while roughly 20% of Americans live in rural ...

Back in the days before child labor laws — and before it became conventional wisdom that no young person could develop proper character without playing two dozen sports, mastering three instruments ...

Whenever Roanoke author Beth Macy visited her hometown in Ohio, she was struck by how the city and its residents, family and friends included, had changed over the years. Macy, the first in her family ...

More than a decade ago, the Emmy-nominated documentary Poor Kids portrayed poverty in America as it’s rarely seen: through the eyes of children. Now, those kids — Brittany, Johnny and Kaylie — are all ...