Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Poor rural counties have a higher rate of ...

Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

As the U.S. heads toward a third peak in the pandemic, rural counties are among the areas most severely affected by Covid-19. While their absolute numbers of cases are still relatively small compared ...

Growing up poor in isolated rural areas and small towns is qualitatively different from growing up poor in the city. Yet most of what experts know about the effects of poverty on children’s ...

Poverty in America is structural and intentional. And rural poverty, especially so. Rural poverty was formed and compounded by intentional policy choices like the enslavement of pan-African people in ...

For a brief moment in the summer of 2023, the surprise No. 1 song “Rich Men North of Richmond” focused the country’s attention on a region that often gets overlooked in discussions of the U.S. economy ...

This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder and Climate Central. On the day he would become homeless, Wesley Bryant was awoken by his wife, Alexis. “Get up,” she told him.

The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined during the five-year period ending in 2022, though several rural counties saw their share of poor residents increase, according to new U.S.