Rural Communities

Did you know rural students, even those with excellent grades, often have fewer opportunities for exposure to technology than their urban or suburban counterparts?

Rural residents didn’t pull in more money from the federal government than those in the cities. They received less.

If you care about rural communities, watch this speech — even if it means skipping a few cat videos.

The rural unemployment rate for October matched the national rate at about 7%. But rural areas continue to shed jobs. See how your county is doing.

Recoveries in agriculture and rural manufacturing are combining with rapidly spreading high-speed wireless access and other factors to yield numbers that few predicted.

A "collaborative organization" whose goal is to "help build the field of the rural arts."

The annual snapshot of economic conditions in nonmetro America shows fewer jobs, more poverty and a declining population.

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

The RURAL DATA PORTAL provides over 350 data indictors for your community.

Cities have regenerated almost all the jobs they lost in the recession that started in 2007. But nonmetropolitan counties have a long way to go to get back to their pre-recession job levels.