Rural Narratives
Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks
Local-Level Building Blocks highlight conditions in rural places and regions that individual can act on by themselves.
Thrive Rural Framework: Systems-Level Building Blocks
The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...
Turning Points: Doing Rural Development Differently
This book chapter highlights six action principles to “do economic development differently”—principles that shifts from the risky “winner takes all”...
The Rural Development Innovation Group at Four Years
Over the past four years, the Rural Development Innovation Group has identified and highlighted what’s working in rural community and...
Building Better Fundamentals for Rural Progress
Sector-specific solutions dominate rural policy. We often hear about rural health, rural water, rural housing, broadband, agriculture. These are pieces...
What Fuels Inaccurate and Incomplete Coverage of Rural Issues?
This report underscores and articulates how ongoing changes in the structure and business of media and journalism contribute to the...
In Search of Good Rural Data: Measuring Rural Prosperity
Economic and demographic data drive research, policy development, distribution of government resources, and private investment decisions. But many of the...
States Newsroom
States Newsroom
News From The States brings together strong daily reporting and commentary from States Newsroom and our independent nonprofit partners. Constantly updated, with curated featured stories and highlighted trends, it illuminates state government across the U.S. like never before.
Thrive Rural: Connecting Development, Health, & Opportunity
One in five people in the U.S. lives in a rural or tribal community. Many rural places are dynamic and...
America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell
PBS
PBS features the nationally recognized and award-winning Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention (SFLR) program.
Representing Rural America: Development Needs and Policy
This report summarizes the survey over thirty experts in the rural economic development sphere (directors of grassroots rural organizations, policy institutes, rural advocates, state and federal government officials, congressional aides, academics, and general policy experts.)
Exploding Myths about Rural Entrepreneurship
Report provides insight into five case studies in Iowa, North Dakota, Maine, Arkansas, and Michigan that show disparate rural economies in order to better develop strategies for rural new business entrepreneurship.