USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

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 ...

Thunder Bay is now included in the Rural Ontario Development Program after joint efforts by the Thunder Bay CEDC, the City of ...

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 ...

Rural communities are essential to the nation’s social, economic, and scientific future. Yet when it comes to STEM education and workforce development, these communities are often underserved, ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine offers a road map for increasing access to science, technology, engineering, and math education ...