A $100,000 fee on H-1B visas creates barrier for short-staffed rural health systems

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

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.