The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

The Rural Blog

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Opinion: Farming is often about tradition, but helping new farmers find their footing will take intention and sharing

Rural residents seeking higher degrees often have to move; lawmakers think community colleges may have a solution

Census survey shows 'brain drain' continues in rural states, but there are ways to address it

Rural areas learning how to bring young people back home; start by listening to them, University of Georgia finds

Study finds these factors bring college grads back to rural hometowns: schools, friends, rurality, fewer degree holders

Quick hits: Lyme disease vaccine could be near; owner of small Alaskan newspaper offers to sell it for nothing

Will lagging rural job growth erode Trump base?

A solution for the population drain in rural America?

Cure to rural brain drain is sending more rural kids to college, promoting positives of rural areas

Newspaper localizes rural brain drain; examines career options for four recent high school grads

Search for higher quality of life draws professionals in their 30s and 40s to rural communities

Minn. news site follows rural youth in college

Eastern Kentuckian returns home to show what locals can do to help revitalize Appalachia

Education researcher calls out former W.Va. governor over brain-drain comments

N.D. town's effort to attract residents flounders from small-town cliquishness, extreme isolation

Crofton, Neb., shows how rural towns can look inward for economic development

Banks, rural electrics, economic-development groups try to keep young people in rural Iowa

Brain drain: Rural states struggle to keep single, college-educated youth