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.

Many rural roads and bridges are in poor shape, a new report says, and fixing them will cost $180 billion. The report from TRIP, a national transportation research non-profit, found that nearly a ...

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 ...

Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) living in rural and impoverished areas face a significantly higher risk of dying from CRC. Previous research has shown that patients living in ...

RALEIGH, N.C. − A growing homeless crisis has been stretching to far-flung corners of the Tar Heel State, with tent encampments popping up in rural areas and demand for social services spiking in ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

IOWA, USA — Iowa is leading America's rural transportation system crisis, according to a new report from TRIP, a national transportation research nonprofit. The report, Rural Connections: Examining ...

The problems facing the peasantry can only be solved through a struggle against capitalism in unity with the working class.

In Britain, people imagine poverty as mainly an urban phenomenon. We think of poverty as rundown housing estates or tower blocks, far from the idyllic countryside scenes of shows like Escape to the ...

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.