Canada’s urban/rural divide in terms of party support is increasingly pronounced. The leader who succeeds in building new support must overcome a powerful long-term trend.
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A federal proposal could effectively reclassify the homes of millions of Americans as rural, not urban – without anything actually changing about their communities.
Those living in rural areas have more punitive attitudes toward crime and how to control it than city-dwellers, and it’s a major component of the growing urban-rural divide in Canada.
Across Japan, towns and villages are vanishing as the population ages and young people move to the cities. How the country manages this holds lessons for other developed nations facing a similar fate.
Data show the vast majority of people killed by gun violence are black and live in urban areas.
Health outcomes for rural Americans have steadily deteriorated in recent decades even as they’ve improved elsewhere. The GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will worsen the problem.
Federal rules governing television stations were meant to keep them connected to the communities they serve. The Trump administration wants to weaken those rules, and those civic links.
Pittsburgh’s post-industrial economic resurgence is promising, a historian of the region writes, but there’s a reason President Trump highlighted the area in his speech exiting the Paris climate deal.
At society’s margins, people without access to the mainstream job economy are able to carve out lives rich in other resources and community.
Are you part of the 86 percent of Americans who do not live in rural America? Here’s why Trump’s choice to lead the USDA matters to you.
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Visiting Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor, Anthropology & Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
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Director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center; Assistant Professor of Law, Drake University
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Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
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Boston University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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Associate Professor of History, Shippensburg University
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Research fellow, Boston University
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Assistant VP for Outreach and Initiatives, Office of Research and Economic Development, and Professor, College of Education, Mississippi State University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of New England
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Assistant Professor of Education, Southern Oregon University
