A proposed definition of the term rural submitted by the Department of Agriculture to Congress last month could have broad implications for small towns across America - and not everyone is happy about ...

[imgbelt img=yolo.jpg]Proposed changes in how the USDA defines eligibility for its development programs will improve the department’s service to rural communities, says the deputy undersecretary in ...

The small town of Houston, Missouri, is off the beaten path and has only 2,500 residents, but it still doesn't meet the definition of "rural" in some federal programs. Small towns far from big cities ...

In 1987 Congress formed the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) within the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to advise the secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...

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 ...

Four deer stand among the corn stalks in a field along Old Collinsville Road in rural Caseyville Township last week. The area is still farmland, though many subdivisions have been built, or are being ...