A report by Save the Children finds the U.S. ranks 36 out of 175 nations when it comes to child poverty. Within the U.S., nearly a quarter of children growing up in rural America were poor in 2016.

Poverty in America is structural and intentional. And rural poverty, especially so. Rural poverty was formed and compounded by intentional policy choices like the enslavement of pan-African people ...

Event Materials Event Transcript Event Summary Policymakers often overlook rural poverty, although it remains a persistent problem in the United States. On Thursday, AEI and the American Academy ...

Continue reading to discover more about HAC’s research into persistent poverty in rural America and how PRT has affected the landscape.

A recent study by the Appalachian Regional Commission is comparing rural Appalachia to the rest of rural America.

Seven U.S. foundations have joined forces to combat rural poverty through a new organization called the National Rural Funders Collaborative. The funds plan to increase the investment capital ...

Over 100 University of Michigan students and staff attended the first event of the annual Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions Speaker Series Friday afternoon.

Rural areas have a disproportionate share of the US poverty population. Like poor urban communities, the persistence and severity of poverty in rural America can be linked to a limited opportunity ...

Travis Dove, The New York Times, Redux Four in 10 poor Americans are white, and many live in rural areas, yet most of the dollars to help the poor go to aid minorities in cities. As philanthropy races ...

The expansion of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, projected to decrease child poverty by 40%, will have an outsized ...