Economists say that rural America enjoyed a brief, pandemic-era revival that is now over. Manufacturing has slowed, immigration has stalled, remote work is being rolled back and rural hospitals face ...

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While Pennsylvania is best known for its marquee metropolises of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, its beating heart is, arguably, found within the farms, forests and rolling mountains that thousands of ...

For years, America’s political and media leaders have either ignored the issues facing rural areas or felt they were unavoidable. However, the problems in rural communities are real and, in some ways, ...

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. After ...

The alarming trend of rural hospitals closing their maternity wards is putting the health of countless mothers and babies at risk. As more rural communities lose access to essential obstetric (OB) ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

In February 2024, Danielle Redenbaugh, assisted only by her husband and a dispatcher, gave birth on the side of a road in rural Kansas because the nearest maternity ward was 30 miles away. This ...

Rural healthcare systems across the United States are under increasing strain, and Vermont is already experiencing the ...

Barack Obama promised in 2008 to help reverse rural decline. With rural communities losing population and becoming older and poorer, his campaign's Blueprint for Change included a "rural ...