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Government & Politics

'This business just wouldn't exist': Farmer says federal program was critical to success

Two of the hoop houses the Lotspeichs paid for using NRCS grants.

Sustainability & Climate

As erosion and floods swallow buildings, Washington's coastal communities strain to adapt

A section of beach in North Cove, Washington that is being restored by installing dead trees at an angle to build up the eroding shoreline.

Government & Politics

Lending program for natural disaster relief is on a Project 2025 chopping block

Workers at the Small Business Administration’s Business Recovery Center in Maryland talking to Governor Wes Moore.

Environment

Election 2024: Competing visions of how USDA funding can help rural America

A soybean harvester in a Tennessee farm.

Weather

The rural Americans too poor for federal flood protections

Cleanup efforts at the Isom IGA store in East Kentucky after the flooding of July 2022.

Environment

More renewables projects were funded by rural energy program REAP in 2023, but small-scale funding was down

Solar panels at Lavalier's Berry Patch.

Sustainability & Climate

A small town passed a one-of-a-kind sustainability plan. Now, they have to get creative to fund it

The “It’s the Climate” sign was first hung on July 20, 1920, to promote the temperate weather of Grants Pass.

Parenting & Family

2021 Child Tax Credit expansion not only lowered financial stress for millions of families, but also improved their mental health

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaks during press briefing on expanding the child tax credit

Social Issues

Changes in child tax credit would have outsized impact on rural children

school bus picks up on rural road route

Government & Politics

Rural communities still at a disadvantage when competing for government grants

Photo Illustration showing the US Capitol building superimposed alongside gold-colored dollar signs over a rural landscape