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Rural America
Finding child care is tough for farming families. The next farm bill could help.
Jan 11, 2024
Most day care centers cater to parents with 9-to-5 jobs. New funding could help child care facilities expand their offerings.
When Amazon comes to town, rural post offices struggle to keep up with deliveries
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Sofia Terenzio
Dec 11, 2023
When thousands of Amazon packages arrived overnight, it wreaked havoc on a post office in Bemidji, Minnesota.
The rural-urban income divide persists, and it may be widening
Nov 30, 2023
Cities are home to high-paid business services and rural areas have lost manufacturing, contributing to the 23% gap in earnings.
New energy projects are coming to small towns. Where will workers live?
by
Caitlin Tan
Jul 11, 2023
The Biden administration is eyeing nuclear as one solution to ‘clean’ energy, but as a new nuclear plant moves into a rural community in Wyoming, there's another challenge — housing shortages for workers.
What rurally-based companies can teach us about shrinking labor pools
Jun 21, 2023
A remote corner of the U.S. might offer insight into how companies can work with the labor market they've got.
Going once, going twice, gone! Farm auctions are moving online, and that's changing a rural tradition
Jun 5, 2023
Farm auctions — a marketplace for knickknacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also social gathering spaces for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.
High inflation looks different, hits harder, in rural America
Sep 2, 2022
Rising costs and slower-growing incomes cut small town households’ discretionary income by 38% in the last year, pressuring a way of life.
For public good, not for profit.
In rural areas, the high cost of diesel is driving up the cost of doing business
by
Hugh Cook
Aug 30, 2022
Rural Americans often travel longer distances or use diesel-based equipment, so they are disproportionately affected by fuel prices.
Inflation hits harder in rural areas
Feb 9, 2022
The consumer price index captures how much urban residents spend on goods and services, but it misses some of the nuance of rural life.
Some rural Americans worry about USPS cuts, closures
Jan 18, 2022
Since 2007, the United States Postal Service has reported net losses of nearly $100 billion.