Rural hospitals are disappearing across America, with hundreds more under financial distress. It's leaving patients without care options.

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To satisfy Republicans opposed to last summer's cuts to health care, the Trump administration launched an ambitious 5-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been ...

The economy is getting stronger. Jobs are up, people are spending and on paper, everything looks great. This should be a time ...

Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Pessimism about the country's future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what's ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from ...

Over 500 hospitals have dropped labor and delivery services in the last decade, many of them in rural areas.

O n the surface, Louisiana State University at Alexandria might seem like an institution in trouble. It’s a public regional campus in a rural swath of the state, located in a city of under 50,000 that ...

Roughly one in five Americans live in rural areas — places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through ...

A new survey has shown that rural America is feeling more optimistic about the country's future, at a time when many others are feeling the opposite. This comes after a survey by the American ...

Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas – places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many people understand rural America through stereotypes.