Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

The idea of poverty in America often appears in statistics and shaded maps, but in the ridges and hollows of West Virginia, it is a daily reality. It is not an issue to be debated on Sunday talk shows ...

A viral claim that $140K is the “real poverty line” has sparked debate over what it takes to be middle class in 2025.

One in five students across the U.S. goes to school in a rural setting. Rural school districts often have specific challenges, such as high transportation budgets, difficulty attracting good teachers ...

Rural America has a lawyer shortage. According to an article published by the University of California Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, while roughly 20% of Americans live in rural ...

After rural voters in past elections turned out big for former President Donald Trump, a narrative emerged that rural, white America had shifted right. The emergence of Tim Walz and JD Vance as vice ...

I did not get on a plane or leave the country until I was 15. Where I grew up in West Virginia, not many of my neighbors had passports—most had never left the country. When I got a passport to go on ...