When I tell people I meet in big cities that I’m from a town of 700 people, the sort of place where everyone is cousins, I’m often met with a sympathetic wince. Most people presume I had a difficult ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Part of the problem is that people living in rural areas don't always have easy access to health care. cstar55/iStock via Getty ...

For the one in five Americans who still live in rural areas, remote work isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeline. And more and more of these would-be workers will be at risk unless we can summon the ...

What drives economic growth in rural areas — jobs attracting people, or people attracting jobs? According to Amanda Weinstein of the Center on Rural Innovation, the answer may lie in an unexpected ...

Up to 20% of the LGBTQ+ population in the U.S. lives in rural America. That’s millions of people defying the narrative that the only place queer folks want to live is in a city or on the coast. One ...

Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...

I have a romantic notion of what life is like for children raised in rural areas. The impression I’ve gained from the experiences and recollections of my rural-raised friends is that their childhood ...

Rural Americans—particularly men—are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

A 60-year-old man living in rural America today is expected to live on average two fewer years than his urban counterpart. (Photo by John Sekutowski / Unsplash) This story was originally published by ...

Rural Americans – particularly men – are expected to live significantly shorter, less healthy lives than their urban counterparts, according to our research, recently published in the Journal of Rural ...

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett was the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress while conducting some of this research. Currid-Halkett is on the Scholars' Council for the nonprofit Braver ...