Rebecca Stonehill is an author and creative writing teacher living in Norwich with her husband and three teenage children. The River Days of Rosie Crow will be her fourth publishe ...

New census monograph highlights regional disparities, school access gaps, and rising risks prompting calls for targeted ...

The report shows that cancer deaths are higher in rural areas than in urban areas, and the gap in mortality rates is widening.

Medicaid expansion remains a critical source of coverage for people with low incomes, many of whom lack access to affordable health coverage through other sources. In the ten remaining non-expansion ...

Compare Inpatient Rehab examined data from the CDC's National Health Interview Survey to examine the chronic pain epidemic.

Nearly 90% of the land in the United States is rural and about one in five people, or some 60 million, live throughout it ...

Over 5 million children in the United States live in what the federal government designates as “persistent poverty” counties.

At the end of the Gilded Age, Edwin Markham’s poem “The Man with the Hoe” became an ideological litmus test, polarizing the ...

As full-fibre broadband deployments maintain steady pace across country, UK government introduces tool to allow businesses across England and Wales to discover if they are due a government-backed ...

Global food systems face intertwined challenges of environmental degradation, malnutrition, rural poverty, and social inequity. Conventional agricultural ...

Public education advocates are pushing for more per-pupil state aid to schools in high-poverty areas and isolated rural communities and for special education students. Alex Stamm is the education ...