Spotlights

Thanks to collaboration with local partners and crucial federal funding, Yakutat’s new heat recovery system warms classrooms and saves in fuel costs.

Dinkins is a parent and grandparent who does everything possible to protect the health and safety of her loved ones. Surgery saved her daughter’s life. That surgery was possible because of Medicaid.

People in Marshalltown are forging something special, but the crucial question looms: will Washington stand with them or will misguided policies get in the way?

By investing in rural organizing, 21 rural counties voted to raise wages and enact a paid sick policy.

While we serve in different levels of government in different parts of the country, we see the same challenge. As elected officials we hear from our...

As advocates that work with small businesses of all kinds, we know that small and independent businesses in rural America are a crucial source of...

Being Black and rural is a blessing. Having come from generations of Black Rural Georgians, I have witnessed and experienced the intersectionality...

For years, rural communities and the rural electric cooperatives that serve them have been waiting for substantial new investment in rural energy...

Many rural communities, just like urban areas, are facing critical affordable housing shortages. Rural housing specialists say that federal funding...

To maintain their commitment to providing affordable and stable electricity to rural areas, many rural electric cooperatives are interested in...

In the United States, one in four Americans struggle to afford prescription medications. Prescription drug affordability causes the most problems...

The Oneida Nation’s Oneida Community Integrated Food Systems (OCIFS) is restoring land and waters for food production in Northeast Wisconsin....