Corporations restrict what farmers can do with their own seeds, as well as their farm equipment when it breaks down.
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If the EV transition focuses exclusively on drivers in privately owned cars, it won’t meet many Americans’ mobility needs, particularly in underserved communities.
The rising cost of living doesn’t hit all Americans equally. Yet the benchmark figure for charting the rising cost of living excludes people in rural areas.
Young queer people growing up in rural areas don’t necessarily need to flee their communities to find safety and acceptance.
While many students who grew up in rural communities leave for good after going off to college, some are returning to their rural roots. A scholar who studies education and small towns explains why.
Farmers can help slow climate change by mixing native grasses into croplands, restoring wetlands and raising perennial crops. These strategies also conserve soil and water and build new markets.
A federal proposal could effectively reclassify the homes of millions of Americans as rural, not urban – without anything actually changing about their communities.
Stereotypically, gay, queer and trans kids flee small towns to find acceptance in big, diverse cities like New York or Chicago. But evidence shows many will eventually return to rural areas.
Americans depend more than ever on high-speed internet to connect to jobs, get health care and socialize. What policies really work to close the rural-urban digital divide?
The Postal Service plays a critical role in the supply chains of small businesses and in keeping rural America connected. There’s no reason it can’t continue to do so despite its financial woes.
Local leaders and business owners have had to get creative to help their residents stay healthy and keep community economies going.
African Americans, young children and rural Americans are a few of the groups at risk of being undercounted in this year’s census.
Southern governors are starting to reopen their economies at the same time COVID-19 cases are spreading through the rural South.
Rural America has special problems as it copes with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rural African American families typically have more disadvantages than those living in urban areas. But high-tech options can help.
Often schools close out of a belief that taking this step will save money and help students. Whether or not those benefits materialize, there are downsides for the locals.
2019 was a big year for dire warnings about the state of the planet, but crises can spur solutions.
Investing in farming methods that improve lands and water, and in rural infrastructure and markets, could bring new prosperity to agricultural communities.
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.
A sociologist spent over a year interviewing black, white and Latino residents of a declining coal town in central Pennsylvania, plumbing the sources of their political disillusionment.
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Executive Director, Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University
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Professor and Neustadt Chair, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
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Director of the Southern Rural Development Center & Professor of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management; Co-director of the Bioeconomy Institute; Director C-CHANGE, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
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Project Director, RTC: Rural, University of Montana
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Economic Development Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State
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Professor of Environmental Science & Policy, University of North Dakota
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Director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center; Assistant Professor of Law, Drake University
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Professor of Educational Administration, Michigan State University
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Professor of Anthropology, The College of Wooster
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Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
