This article was originally published by Carolina Demography. What determines if an area is rural or not? Why is it relevant to distinguish between urban and rural at all? In this article, we talk ...

How do you know if you live in the city or the country? For some, any place without a Whole Foods is rural. For others, a stoplight is a harbinger of urban sprawl. The federal government has more than ...

The U.S. government has at least 15 different official definitions of the word “rural,” including 11 at the Agriculture Department alone. These definitions apply to different programs, often ...

[imgbelt img=timsilosandsky530.jpg]With so much federal spending under review, we need a clearer, sharper picture of what’s rural. Spending on ag alone doesn’t tackle the problem of rural development.

A proposed definition of the term rural submitted by the Department of Agriculture to Congress last month could have broad implications for small towns across America - and not everyone is happy about ...

The small town of Houston, Missouri, is off the beaten path and has only 2,500 residents, but it still doesn't meet the definition of "rural" in some federal programs. Small towns far from big cities ...

The final story in NPR's week-long series "On the Road to Safety" focused on the nation's most dangerous roads -- rural highways extending beyond cities and suburbs. I reported in that story the clear ...

When is an unincorporated town more rural than urban? In Wisconsin, the answer may depend on whether one lives in Rib Mountain, a suburb of Wausau with a population of just under 7,000 – or Milwaukee, ...

This year and for all of the five years that I’ve now served in the Colorado Legislature, the words “rural Colorado” are often heard. This last session even produced Senate Bill 267, titled “Rural ...

Background The advent of patient-centered care challenges policy makers, health care administrators, clinicians, and patient advocates to understand the factors that contribute to effective patient ...