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=moulton2.jpg] The Senate version of the Farm Bill makes it easier to be classified as “rural.” Now any place under 50,000 people will qualify for the bill’s rural programs — and that ...

Hilda Legg (right), Kentucky State Director, USDA Rural Development, speaks with Director of National Drug Control Policy Jim Carroll and Volunteers of America Mid-States’ President and CEO Jennifer ...

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 ...