USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

Investing in these projects provides opportunities for smaller, rural communities to make themselves more appealing to their ...

Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

MALHEUR COUNTY — Malheur County will receive one of several grants from the USDA Rural Development aimed at boosting agriculture and small business development in rural Oregon.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Fifteen recipients of Rural Economic Development grants were announced Wednesday by the Kansas ...

The Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity (LEO) Office of Rural Prosperity announced over $500,000 in grants for rural infrastructure. Round 4 of the Rural Readiness Grant Program ...

The Daily Yonder's coverage of rural economic issues, including workforce development and the future of work in rural America, is supported in part by Microsoft. Rural America’s historic population ...

The mechanization of farming changed the community-based farming model after WWII. Photo by Charles Knowles,used under the CC BY 2.0 license. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is adapted from a paper ...

Rural America’s economic performance has generally lagged urban America’s performance for decades. This relative decline accelerated after 2000, and the economic expansion since the Great Recession ...

Rural towns and counties in Maryland are aggressively pursuing economic development, hoping to draw in larger employers while strengthening the home-grown shops and businesses that have been mainstays ...

The Braun administration has published a rural economic development plan for Indiana. It looks a lot like plans offered by GOP and Democratic governors over the past 75 years. Indeed, the only element ...

Alabama is focusing attention on its rural areas in a bid to spur economic development. The state’s Department of Commerce today unveiled the “RurAL” website along with a marketing campaign trumpeting ...