Credit: USDA, May 2010 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”) has played a pivotal role as one of the most effective tools ...

Kate Morgan reports from the New York Times from a trip across Appalachia to learn about black lung disease's newest manifestation, wh...

This is from the Department of Justice press release .   The Justice Department’s Office for Access to Justice today announced the launch of...

The U.S. Census Bureau reported last week on rural-urban differences in disability.  Here is the introductory material:    Where people liv...

The Guardian interviewed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for her 2022 novel Demon Copperhead ,  on the occasio...

Blake Hounshell writes for the New York Times about a new report from the political nonprofit American Family Voices (AFV) titled " W...

The headline in the Athens (Georgia) News Courier is, " Disability claims challenging in rural areas; data shows low approval rates ....

Here's the policy brief from Syracuse University's Lerner Center for Public Health, authored by Claire Pendergrast (Syracuse) and D...

Frank Morris reports for NPR this morning on the memorial service for Bob Dole in his hometown, Russell, Kansas, population 4,401.   Here...

The New York Times published a big story today on the challenges of protecting people with disabilities amidst natural disasters like the ...

(c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2010 Murray Community Center, Newton County, Arkansas  The sign on the post, facing the other direction, marks handicappe...

The California Report Magazine recently reported on how one woman’s cycle of incarceration and mental illness encouraged a rural county to ...

The Los Angeles Times today ran a feature story about the three civilians (by that I means not fire fighters or PG & E employees) kille...

The media are increasingly paying attention to how coronavirus is playing out differently in rural and urban areas.  From the perspective of...

As we enter the second major round of blackouts in California, I thought I'd collect here some coverage of the last round, earlier this ...

Office of the Del Norte Triplicate, a thrice-weekly paper in Crescent City, California (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2019 When I travel to rural pl...

NPR reports today from upstate New York on the intersection of disability, rurality, poverty, and employment, with something of a focus on...

Some readers may have followed the story of Eric Conn, a major disability attorney in eastern Kentucky, who was indicted in 2017 on charges ...