National programs have not yielded improved achievement rates in schools. We need to empower local people to take responsibility and collaborate to develop programs.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
In Iowa, almost 40 percent of residents can’t afford the basic cost of living. That was the setting for the 2018 midterm elections, where rural voters are suffering along with their communities.
School children at Nunawading Christian College in Melbourne. What if rural students were educated as well?
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Research shows that young women are more ambivalent than young men when it comes to employment opportunities and other reasons to relocate to rural communities.
New South African research supports evidence that urbanisation has a positive impact on people’s lives and must be managed appropriately for development.
People wait in line for a methadone clinic to open in Hoquiam, Washington, a small town within a predominantly rural area.
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A different form of state capture is underway in South Africa’s rural areas where traditional leaders are selling off people’s land to miners. But communities are fighting back.
When the usual way of doing things is flipped around, students can benefit.
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As South Africa prepares to introduce a national minimum wage, a new study shows that it will have a varied impact. Some parts of the economy are likely to be negatively affected.
A rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco in January.
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Twenty years ago, a sheriff won a lawsuit against a federal gun control law. Today, San Francisco is betting the same argument for state’s rights will stop Trump from defunding sanctuary cities.
The divide is in the data.
American Community Survey (ACS) 2011-2015 5 year estimates, Table S1810
More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.