Rural health care in the United States has evolved, from traveling physicians to technology to reduce health care disparities. But challenges remain.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rural hospital closures limit healthcare for millions of Americans.Thomas Northcut/Getty Images Over `100 rural hospitals have ...

According to a 2025 article published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the share of residents at prime working ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

The livability of rural America will be partly driven by how well it connects to urban centers, but also, but creating local ...

Philanthropy's broken promise to invest in neglected communities helped fuel Trump's rise. Now funders have a new opportunity to win their trust. But these analyses ignore the economic and cultural ...

Roughly 1 in 5 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 stereotypes.

This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a ...

Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina’s Allendale County has looked overseas for help. A quarter of the teachers in the rural, high-poverty district come from other ...

Emergency rooms, maternity wards, and intensive care units are vanishing across rural America. The phenomenon is leaving millions of people without access to medical services. Some now have to travel ...