USDA Rural Development and the founding partners of the Southern West Virginia Rural Partner Network have identified high-priority focus areas, based on trends across the network, to improve ...

The Rural Partners Network places community liaisons in underserved rural areas that have historically faced challenges accessing and managing federal grants and resources. America’s rural communities ...

This opinion column was submitted by Lucas Ingvoldstad, Nevada state director for USDA Rural Development. Earlier this year, USDA Rural Development announced Uprise Fiber received a $27 million grant ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...