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.

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Millions of children have lost their health care coverage; 'procedural' or 'red tape' problems are to blame

Nutrition programs expanded for women and children during pandemic due to easier access; but changes are temporary

Farming stress isn't limited to the farmer, a new study looks at the demands of farming on adolescents and their parents

Family-based residential addiction treatment centers are successful, but the model struggles to be viable

Diapers' cost can strain poor families' budgets; Tennessee becomes the first state to have Medicaid pay for them

SNAP benefits will end in 32 states; food pantries aim to fill the gap; it may not be possible to meet the demand

'Culture of silence' envelops sexual abuse of rural kids; training program in Oregon and California seeks change

Cost of living and child care are at the heart of rural family concerns, survey by Save the Children shows

As in-home pot edibles increase, they sicken more children; more than half of those in a study were 2 or 3 years old

Minnesota town of 1,500 passes sales tax to fund childcare

Shortage of beds for sick children 'not simply the result of a deluge of sick children' but hospitals' desire for money

No. 3 GOP House member assails proposed limit on milk for WIC families; her facts were right; her prediction may not be

Misbehaving teachers move from district to district and state to state with relatively little scrutiny

Pandemic roundup: Publix won't vaccinate kids under 5; even asymptomatic coronavirus infection can hurt a fetus

Appeals court: EPA didn't have enough proof to conclude Roundup doesn't cause cancer, needs new risk assessment

Southern Baptist Convention publishes full sex-abuse report, including a database of alleged abusers

Fact Check explains why and how infant formula is being sent to children of undocumented immigrants at the border

Formula roundup: House passes bills to help FDA, expand WIC choices; Biden invokes Defense powers; plant could reopen soon; some infants and children hospitalized

Abbott reaches agreement with FDA to reopen formula plant

Report documents abuse and deaths of Native American children at government boarding schools from 1819 to 1969