Rural poverty has dropped sharply to 4.86% in the fiscal year ending March 2024, down from 25.7% in 2011-12, primarily due to ...

As Nigeria battles with escalating number of people living in extreme poverty, policy and development experts are proffering solutions on how to tackle rural poverty. In this interview with Victor ...

Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural in 39 ...

The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. They involve, among other things, culture, climate, gender, markets, and public policy. Likewise, the rural poor are quite diverse both in ...

Larry Bierl tragically froze to death in Amherst recently. It could just have easily happened in rural Western New York. Coverage of Larry’s death, and the related issue of how those experiencing ...

Byron Stuart is the owner of Byron’s Bar, the last business still open in downtown Pomeroy, Iowa. (Tom Cullen, Storm Lake Times Pilot photo) Buy Photo Coming from relatively prosperous Iowa, I ...

Telehealth gains stall rural Virginia as poverty and poor broadband limit access despite pandemic-era growth, warns VCU study.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Analyses of people with early-onset colorectal cancer showed those who lived in rural communities had shorter ...

As the White House raises the costs of H-1B visas to an unprecedented $100,000, new research finds that rural and high-poverty communities rely the most on international physicians who get the permits ...

For many young Nigerians, the dream of a university education ends not in failure, but in lack of funds. Brilliant students with ...