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For the first time in seven years, rural America’s population is growing. The annual U.S. Department of Agriculture report “Rural America at a Glance”...
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Angie Gomez has seen and heard plenty of stories about how hard it is for unauthorized immigrants and migrant farmworkers in rural areas to find lawyers...
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“If our tax increase doesn’t pass, we’re probably going to have to look at a four-day week” for county services, one commissioner says.
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Watchdog groups say changes to the 2020 census could make it harder to accurately count people living in rural areas, which could ultimately lead to...
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From Texas Standard: Texas has almost a dozen medical schools, but it also has a rural healthcare worker shortage. The Texas Higher Education...
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Because many farmworkers speak Spanish, veterinarian schools are pushing to open the lines of communication and ensure accurate medical care by producing more bilingual graduates.
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From Texas Standard: Over the years, Kandice Mallard and her mom Brenda Dagestad have traveled hours from their home in Abilene to see psychiatrists....
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When communities watch young people grow up, go off and never return, remaining residents and politicians often bemoan there’s been a “brain drain” —...
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Thirty-eight calves, between two and four months old, moo and kick at the dirt floor in a steel barn in Brush, Colorado. One by one, a handler leads...
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At The Law Shop in Van Meter, Iowa, attorney Amy Skogerson untied a piece of blue yarn from around a bunch of craft sticks. Each stick had a word or...