Rural

How Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Thinks Democrats Can Win Rural America
And I also believe that sustainability isn’t primarily being driven by government policy. It’s being driven by the demands of the private sector. Every company that comes to Kentucky...
Kentucky’s Gov. Beshear says Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will ‘hit rural America right in the face’
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are waging war on rural America. Mr. Beshear, a Democrat who is thought to be eyeing a presidential...

Chinese man defies demolition orders to build madcap rural home
Surrounded by the rubble of demolished homes, Chen Tianming's ramshackle tower of faded plyboards and contorted beams juts into the sky in southwestern China, a teetering monument to one...

The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
Those problems led 136 rural hospitals, or about 3 percent, to close between 2010 and 2021. Almost three-fourths of those were in states that hadn’t expanded Medicaid through the...

Trump Decides to Punish Rural America With Slower Internet
Some feel as if the Afrikaners are simply using the reversal of the apartheid-era systems that they’ve benefited from for generations as justification for their resettlement in the U.S.,...

‘We had jobs’: Rural Romania turns to faith and far-right ahead of presidential election rerun
SASCHIZ, Romania (AP) — In a picturesque village in central Romania, 83-year-old Zoica Roth bemoans the lack of opportunities for young people and says she's not convinced that an...

Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?
The federal government has an almost absurd number of programs that seek to enhance internet access—133, by the count of a 2023 Government Accountability Office report, 25 of which have...



