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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...