Researchers theorize that a greater incidence of two-parent households may explain the “rural advantage” in household income that children from rural areas have compared to their urban counterparts.

Poor farms or town farms were rural New England’s way of caring for indigent people before today’s welfare and Social ...

SANBAIHU VILLAGE, China -- The China that Wang Huazhong glimpses on television is in the midst of an amazing transformation. In cities he has never visited, skyscrapers tower over highways choked with ...

Forty years after Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in his 1964 State of the Union address, nearly 35 million Americans still live below the line. More than 7 million families are in poverty.

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This story was produced through a collaboration between the Daily Yonder, which covers rural America, and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. On the day he would become homeless, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some 15.4 percent of rural Americans lived in poverty in 2007, well above the U.S. average and despite a modest rise in income for rural households, the government said on ...

Rural women from Telangana receive event management training, enhancing skills in various crafts to empower their futures.

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The number of Texans living in poverty slightly declined during the five-year period ending in 2022, though several rural counties saw their share of poor residents increase, according to new U.S.