The number of rural Americans living in poverty has skyrocketed in recent years amidst an economic evolution that has cost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and mining jobs. Poverty rates have ...

[imgbelt img=2009Poverty528.jpg]Poverty rates in rural America are higher than in urban or exurban counties, and these rates have gone up in the recession. But there are large regional differences ...

Rural children are more than twice as likely as urban kids to grow up in areas where a high proportion of young people live in poverty for generations, a new report says. That concentration of ...

Yuchih Choy loads boxes of food into a pickup at the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on Oct. 5, 2022. Credit: Mark Rogers for The Texas Tribune The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

Dan Brockington received funding from the DfID / ESRC Growth Research Programme to conduct this work, and gratefully acknowledges that funding. The grant reference is ES/L012413/2. One of the clearest ...

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The question almost stumped Deborah Smith-Olson, the chairwoman and CEO of Lake-Osceola State Bank. If someone didn’t go to college, what could they do for a living in Baldwin, a small town in the ...

America has waged "war" on poverty since the 1960s, and official numbers suggest substantial progress. Take poverty among the elderly: Between 1959 and 2003, the number of American seniors living in ...

New World Bank support aims to scale up results to date and to benefit more poor communities across Lao PDR. Since 2003, the Poverty Reduction Fund has been supporting the improvement of rural poor’s ...