Rural America

Most day care centers cater to parents with 9-to-5 jobs. New funding could help child care facilities expand their offerings.

When thousands of Amazon packages arrived overnight, it wreaked havoc on a post office in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Cities are home to high-paid business services and rural areas have lost manufacturing, contributing to the 23% gap in earnings.

The Biden administration is eyeing nuclear as one solution to ‘clean’ energy, but as a new nuclear plant moves into a rural community in Wyoming, there's another challenge — housing shortages for workers.

A remote corner of the U.S. might offer insight into how companies can work with the labor market they've got.

Farm auctions — a marketplace for knickknacks, farm land and everything in between — are often also social gathering spaces for rural communities. That’s changing as more auctions go online.

Rising costs and slower-growing incomes cut small town households’ discretionary income by 38% in the last year, pressuring a way of life.

Rural Americans often travel longer distances or use diesel-based equipment, so they are disproportionately affected by fuel prices.

The consumer price index captures how much urban residents spend on goods and services, but it misses some of the nuance of rural life.

Since 2007, the United States Postal Service has reported net losses of nearly $100 billion.