By asking rural people – in more detail than usual – how they've metabolized recent changes in American life, Jacobs and Shea ...

you have financial stability and a great deal of freedom to choose your next steps in life. Chances are also good that you live in or near a vibrant community with a robust local economy. We tend to ...

The president of the National Grange urges lawmakers to take a leaf out of rural America's book and learn how to come ...

He is now CEO of the American Carbon Alliance and a Growth ... He understands the struggles and accomplishments of life in rural America because he lived them. In his role as secretary, he has ...

An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West Virginia compared with New York. Even though the states had very similar life ...

According to new research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of obstetric units across the country is falling. Without them, the health and life of rural mothers ...