Tag: Rural America
Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore’s...
Thurka Sangaramoorthy, American University
Every summer, people flock to Maryland to eat blue crabs. Named for their brilliant sapphire-colored...
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ and the enduring devastation of the opioid crisis
William Nash, Middlebury
Barbara Kingsolver’s literary honors range from the National Book Prize of South Africa to the PEN/Faulkner...
These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...
3 things that influence college graduates from rural areas to return...
Stephanie Sowl, Iowa State University
When high-achieving students from rural areas go off to college and graduate, they often...
Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Agriculture has not been a central part of U.S. climate policy in the...
How 18 million Americans could move into rural areas – without...
Devon Brenner, Mississippi State University and Jesse Longhurst, Southern Oregon University
About 46 million Americans – 14% of the...
Voters aren’t the only ones who dread slow mail – struggling...
Ednilson Bernardes, West Virginia University
Thousands of baby chicks shipped to small poultry farmers through the U.S. Postal Service have arrived at their destinations dead...
Iowa’s farmers – and American eaters – need a national discussion...
Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses bring the state a lot of political attention during presidential election cycles. But in my view,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
