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In Texas, Rural Nursing Homes Outperform Urban Facilities on Some Key Metrics

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to...

Rural Counties: New Arrivals Offset Natural Declines for Fifth Consecutive Year

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Economic Concerns Are Top-of-Mind for Rural Battleground Voters, New Poll Shows

Survey: Rural voters, especially women, are 'deeply worried about the rising cost of living'

Graph by Sarah Melotte, The Daily Yonder, from Lake Research and the Center for Rural Strategies dataThe fight for rural votes during this year's midterm Senate elections could be...

Half of All Rural Counties Are Losing Population. What Is Contributing to Those Declines?

Memo to California's Next Governor: Rural Places Matter

Rural Placemaking Part 2: Life After Walking Tall 

This spring, a consortium of archivi...

What Happened in Rural News This Month?

How closely have you been following the latest stories from rural communities across the country? From rural film and music to debates over infrastructure and land use, this month’...

12 reasons Americans are leaving jobs for rural life in droves

America’s new commute is measured less in miles than in acres. Rising rural migration, fueled by remote work and cost pressures, signals a structural shift in how Americans approac...

Rural connectivity key to agric growth

PUBLIC investment should prioritise the ex­pansion of mobile broad­band and affordable data coverage in underserved rural and farming areas, the United Nations... To acc...

Rural properties taking longer to find buyers, but confidence remains

The amount of time rural property listings have spent on the market has trended higher in most parts of Australia over the past six months, while the number of active listings and...

Philippines lands 34th in Resilient Food Systems Index

The Philippines placed 34th out of 60 countries in the inaugural Resilient Food Systems Index (RFSI) by the Economist Impact, scoring 63.82 out of 100 — below both the Asia-Paciп...

More selective colleges aim to get rural students who've been accepted to take the leap and enroll

Rural students accepted to selective Amherst College make s'mores and discuss their futures. (Photo by Lucy Lu, Hechinger)Prestigious colleges throughout the U.S. are increasing ef...

A Categorization Conundrum in the American Exurbs

Chester County, South Carolina, is caught in a geographic contradiction. Situated in upstate South Carolina’s hilly piedmont region, Chester County is home to about 33,000 resident...

Rural-Focused $42 Billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program Becomes Operational

Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend

Some of the nation's most selective institutions are slowly increasing their rural enrollment with the help of millions of dollars from a rural alumnus of the University of Chicago...

At-Risk Communities Shortchanged by Rural Health Transformation Program, Research Shows

‘No Kings 3’ Highlights What’s Changed in Rural Minnesota

Memo to California’s Next Governor: Rural Places Matter

Erica Etelson Rural communities are crucial to the state—and the country. Why do they get so little attention? The post Memo to California’s Next Governor: Rural Places Matter...

Rural Crime Rates

Evening Team SF, Hands up, working in risk management has ruined my life. In my planning to retire to France I’ve had to examine flood risks, landside risks, forest fire risk, drou...

Commentary: Philanthropies Need to Invest and Build Roots in Rural America

I grew up in rural America. My home county in South Dakota spans more than 2,800 square miles, larger than the state of Delaware, but its population density amounts to just one per...

Yonder Radio: Polling, Forest Farming, Rural Health Transformation Program

Tune in for conversations about new polling, forest farming, and the Rural Health Transformation Fund. Plus, efforts to save a pristine watershed in the Florida Panhandle, an inter...

Livestock vs. Crops: Canadian Farmer Sentiment Index shows financial divide between the sectors

In 2026, farmers and ranchers have faced both expected and unexpected challenges and opportunities. Analyzing the April 2026 Canadian Farmer Sentiment Index results reveals a clear...

Annual report on NI rural needs monitoring published

Northern Ireland’s Minister of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir has published the latest Rural Needs Annual Monitoring Report. The report provides a formal...