Rural Communities

Once upon a time, the story goes, rural America thrived, a land of golden fields dotted with wholesome communities of God-fearing farmers. Then the kids — especially the bright ones — left for the city.

Rural America will need to adapt fast in coming years — but, distressingly, indicators of the region’s resilience are faltering.

In other words, our data analysis suggests that if a rural area has widely available and adopted broadband, it can start to successfully attract or retain millennials.

The legislature characterized the $10 million as one year’s worth of grants and said increased funding is likely in the future.

Journalists Deborah and James Fallows’ 100,000-mile trip to find what’s working in this country

Their chief finding is a striking association between population density — the concentration of people in a given area — and happiness.

The ongoing gentrification of American cities clearly demonstrates the national tendency toward satisfying the rich above all others.

What Reporters Get Wrong: They oversimplify and mischaracterize the political, social, and cultural nature of rural areas.

"It is definitely not all gloom-and-doom. We’ve got our big problems, but the country has not lost what made it America to begin with."

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