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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Brookings calls for FEMA reforms to make disaster declaration, response easier for rural areas

Entries for Best in Rural Writing Contest can be submitted by Sept. 1; fiction and nonfiction entries are encouraged

If Congress doesn't extend enhanced health care tax credits, 4 million rural Americans could face steep premium hikes

Alaska's rural schools funding requests are often ignored, leaving children in crumbling schools

Rural elders are estimated to endure much more abuse than what is reported. Protecting them comes with speaking up.

Opinion: People are getting married less often and having more children outside of marriage -- especially in rural areas

Some of rural Virginia is getting younger; three years of Census data supports a steady trend

Working-age rural residents are dying at 'wildly higher rates' than their urban counterparts; cause is undetermined

Kentucky has 15 veterinarians who are at least 85 years old; they're helping to offset the shortage in rural areas

Shale-oil bust hits rural economies as royalty checks wither

New generation of entrepreneurs emerges in Great Plains

Trade war escalates with new, broader tariffs on Chinese imports; more pressure on farmers, maybe through 2020

Exchange program aims to bridge rural-urban gap in Ky.

Living in a remote, rural, politically divided town

Alarming cancer disparities across rural Appalachia, study finds

Perceived Washington indifference towards rural South fuels support for Trump and Sanders

U.S. future lies in strength of rural communities, Buffets say at Rural Futures Conference

Interactive map details state-level data about EPA's Clean Power Plan

National Rural Health Day is Thursday; webinars available on a variety of health issues

CBS News profiles Eula Hall, 86, a lifelong champion for health care in impoverished Appalachia