Indiana’s school choice program leaves its nearly 300,000 rural public school students with fewer options and fewer resources ...

Scenarios are emerging across the country on both sides of the political spectrum as rural areas are paired with more urban ones to dilute one or the other party’s votes.

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Time for a dramatic transformation to make rural areas more productive, sustainable, ...

All-cause mortality rates in rural areas have exceeded those in urban areas of the US since the 1980s, and the gap continues to widen. Yet no definitive causes of this difference are known, and within ...

Over 61 million people live in rural towns across the United States. These communities are characterized by their remoteness and low population density, with less than 500 individuals per square mile ...

That lack of access affects more than 2.3 million women of reproductive age.

People living in rural counties have a greater risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), requiring hospitalization, and dying from COPD than those in urban areas. Higher smoking ...

Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing for decades, peaking at 215 deaths per 100,000 people, meaning about 1 in 4 ...

We could leverage our rural workforce in remarkable ways. Rural workers are more accessible than ever in an era where remote ...