The worst-affected places would be rural areas in poor states like West Virginia, where the federal government is the only entity with the resources to finance even basic adaptation projects like ...

Several readers objected to my recent column about economic illiteracy colliding with feelings about today’s booming economy. I was tempted to quote a pithy bumper sticker about the relevance of ...

The Trump administration is targeting a federal program that supports small banks in some of the poorest communities across ...

Working-age adults who live in small towns and rural areas are more likely to be covered by Medicaid ... About 72 million ...

The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Wednesday to a series of programs geared toward expanding high-speed internet in rural ...

34, No. 4, pp. 62-85. R. Gaiha, 1993, Design of Poverty Alleviation in Rural Areas (Rome: United Nations, Food and Agricultural Organization). Idriss Jazairy and others, 1992, The State of World Rural ...

to become part of a federal $42 billion grant program to bring high-speed service to rural and poor areas of the United States. The rules of the program — known as Broadband Equity, Access ...

It will be harder to visit field offices in rural areas with high poverty rates. Often these are the same areas that lack widespread internet service. Many Social Security field offices are also ...

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty ... Let’s promote rural areas where women ...

For incidence, poor access to vaccination ... And this is within a relatively urban area. Those are going to be much more pronounced in these rural regions of the United States.” ...