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Showing posts with label Latinos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latinos. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2026

After a jarring ICE raid at a horse racing track, residents of a tiny Idaho town measure the aftermath

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Agents outside La Catedral Arena, a horse track in Wilder, Idaho,  Oct. 19, 2025. (Idaho Statesman photo via Mother Jones) Some residents of...
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Rural communities struggle to find ways to communicate with growing non-native English-speaking population

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Despite the ongoing growth of non-native English-speaking populations in rural communities, people in many counties and towns have failed to...
Friday, January 06, 2023

264 of 304 persistent high-poverty counties are rural: Black Belt, Delta, Appalachia, Ozarks, Rio Grande, Native lands

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Map by Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture A fresh review of data from the Economic Research Service of the ...
Friday, April 29, 2022

Quick hits: Sterile super-Romeo trout may help curb invasive species; tools for rural electric co-ops transitioning to renewable energy; federal aid fuels pickleball boom

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Brook trout have been outcompeting native trout for years. ( NPL photo by Nick Hawkins) Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonanc...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Ex-census overseer: Skewed 2020 census meant 6 states wrongly lost a House seat, 6 more rural states gained one

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The 2020 census was underfunded, understaffed, and cut short. This  apparently affected  some rural areas, but widespread undercounts of Bla...
Monday, March 07, 2022

USDA and EPA officials tour Black Belt county to see chronic sewage problems, a disproportionately rural issue

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Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small, EPA Administrator Michael Regan and activist Catherine ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Rural U.S. lost population for first time ever in 2010-20, but some rural areas grew, mostly through adult people of color

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Population change in nonmetropolitan counties from 2010 to 2020 ( University of New Hampshire Carsey School map; click the image to enlarge...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Rural households are hurt more by inflation than urban ones

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Inflation is at a 30-year high in the U.S., and rural households are some of the hardest hit.  "Inflation has hurt lower-income familie...
Friday, October 01, 2021

Census shows rural America becoming more racially diverse

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Second-most prevalent race or ethnicity in U.S. counties, 2010 and 2020 Census Bureau maps for 2010 and 2020 , adapted by The Rural Blog; c...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Pandemic roundup: Medical groups seek vaccine mandate for health-care workers; some legislators want to ban such

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Here's a roundup of recent news about the pandemic and immunization efforts: More than 50 medical groups released a joint statement toda...
Monday, April 26, 2021

Study: Closing of rural hospital delivery rooms puts Black and indigenous moms and babies at far higher risk of death

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"A new study from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center has found that when rural hospitals close their obstetrics...
Friday, March 05, 2021

Study examines why some LGBTQ+ Americans prefer rural; some say urban gay culture is too focused on sexuality

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Pop culture portrays LGBTQ+ Americans as urban dwellers, but between 15 and 20 percent of them live in rural areas, a greater share than the...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

North Carolina weekly uses Facebook grant to bring in Latinx readers, offering valuable lessons for other papers

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"Over the last nine months, the Chatham News + Record has leveraged a $30,300 Facebook grant to receive an $8,000 commitment from a l...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Brookings paper: Viewing America as rural vs. urban is inaccurate, and has real consequences for rural places

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Viewing America as a rural-urban binary is not only inaccurate, it has real consequences for rural places, Hannah Love and Tracy Hadden Loh ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Racial, ethnic disparities persist in rural education levels

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Educational attainment rates for racial and ethnic minorities have improved over the past two decades, but large gaps persist for rural nonw...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

How Trump won over Latino voters in the Rio Grande Valley

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While Joe Biden was competitive in Texas, President Trump was able to win over the heavily Latino, reliably Democratic counties in the Rio G...
Monday, November 09, 2020

Some farmworkers, with little or no financial security, must decide whether to keep working or risk dangerous infection

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The Trump administration declared farm laborers "essential workers"  in the spring , but hasn't provided much guidance on how ...
Thursday, July 02, 2020

Study: Patients with underlying health conditions 12 times more likely to die from covid-19

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Many rural residents who get covid-19 are at a higher risk of being hospitalized or dying from it, according to newly published data. Coro...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Rural families struggle with finding child care

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Rural families are more likely to live in child-care deserts, meaning areas where demand for licensed child-care programs far outstrips loc...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Report: more than 2 million Americans lack clean water

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More than two million Americans lack access to clean water, according to a new report by clean-water advocacy non-profits DigDeep and the ...