Boys who grow up in rural poverty achieve higher levels of success than their urban peers because of the “predominance of two-parent households,” a new study found. “Why do kids born into poverty in ...

Recreation may appear to cure rural poverty, but experts suggest that it may just relocate it. Figure 1. The percentage of amenity types that comprise rural counties with persistent poverty. “Rural” ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

The nature of traditional energy sources means that development happens around resource-rich areas in order to increase efficiency. As the renewable energy rollout accelerates, there is a huge ...