The pandemic brought rural America manufacturing jobs, new residents and federal support. Policy reversals are erasing all of ...

One of the federal government’s key indicators of economic distress – one that shows that rural counties are disproportionately suffering economically – is disguising persistent, intergenerational ...

Conn is a Kentucky author of memoir and fiction. She is the author of In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir, and her latest novel, Someplace Like Home explores the resilience of women living in ...

[Part I.] Rural people and their communities: [Ch. 1.] Rural people and their work -- [Ch. 2.] The Negro population of the South -- [Ch. 3.] Rural poverty: the special case of the aged -- [Ch. 4.] ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

Russell Hochschild is the professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of many groundbreaking books, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The ...