People living in rural and small town America have much at stake in the 2020 census. But census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.
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Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people.
Agriculture is well placed to provide employment for millions across the African continent.
Your identity changes when you move house and, if that’s to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
Fox hunting has been banned in the UK since 2004 – so why is it still happening?
There’s a notable disparity between the rate of employment for people with and without disabilities, especially in certain pockets of the US.
Think moving won’t change you? You might want to rethink that. To feel ‘at home’ you need to accept the new place where you live as part of your changing identity.
National programs have not yielded improved achievement rates in schools. We need to empower local people to take responsibility and collaborate to develop programs.
Farmers are closest to the land and their livestock, and have everything to lose by not taking care of it.
Robins are a much loved Christmas icon, but wind turbines installed in their habitat are affecting their song, with worrying consequences.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
Boarded up pubs are becoming a common sight, and it’s having a real impact on rural village life.
In Iowa, almost 40 percent of residents can’t afford the basic cost of living. That was the setting for the 2018 midterm elections, where rural voters are suffering along with their communities.
Lifting the standards of rural and remote students to the those of urban students could boost the economy by 3.3%
Today, 8 out of every 10 Americans live in a city or suburb.
As both beneficiary and victim of EU policies, yellowhammers are apt symbols for Brexit’s divisions.
Research shows that young women are more ambivalent than young men when it comes to employment opportunities and other reasons to relocate to rural communities.
Englishness has been found in diverse places and has taken diverse forms.
Worldwide, hedgehogs are disappearing at the same rate as tigers.
New South African research supports evidence that urbanisation has a positive impact on people’s lives and must be managed appropriately for development.
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Project Director, RTC: Rural, University of Montana
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Associate Research Scientist in Rural Sociology, Adjunct Faculty - National Farm Medicine Center, The Ohio State University
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Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
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RTC:Rural Director and Director of Employment Research, University of Montana
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Professor (Communication), Deakin University
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University
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Professor in Geography, University of Wollongong
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Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University