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  • Rural towns face economic pressure from struggling row crop agriculture, but diversification and strong community resilience help sustain main street economies. (Christopher Boswell, Getty Images)

    Small Towns, Big Resilience

    Farm Belt Tightens, Main Street Adjusts

    As the general ag economy faces adversity, small towns work to weather the storm.

  • Rural schools face declining enrollment, funding gaps and teacher shortages but innovate through resource and bus sharing, community partnerships and place-based learning. (Fly View Productions, Getty Images)

    Small Rural Schools Are Big on Solutions

    Small Schools, Big Solutions

    Rural educators are confronting significant challenges with serious grit.

  • Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closing (DTN Graphic using data from Becker's Hospital Review)

    Health Care Code Blue

    Code Blue

    Health care in rural America is on life support, but is there a means for resuscitation on the horizon?

  • Benjamin VanDiest tours the back of an ambulance at the local fire station as part of Community Hospital's Rural Immersion Program, in McCook, Nebraska. (Courtesy of Benjamin VanDiest)

    Rural Communities Must Write Their Own Health Care Prescriptions

    A Rural Prescription

    Facing hospital closures and staff shortages, small towns are writing their own survival stories.

  • Those looking to build a legacy in rural America can find more in Danna Larson's book "Small Town Dreamer". (Danna Larson)

    Create Opportunities to Revitalize Rural America

    Small Town Dreamer

    Find your courage to grow in rural America.

  • Ellie Bowman, right, with the help of her parents, left, transformed a Kansas lumberyard into thriving Prickly Pear Farm and Home by listening to customers and providing excellent service. (Courtesy of Prickly Pear Farm and Home)

    Young Entrepreneur Invests in Her Hometown

    Investing in Rural Main Street

    A young entrepreneur sees a future in her hometown.

  • Net migration has driven growth in the nonmetro, rural population since 2011-12. (Source USDA, Economic research Service using data from the U.S. Census Bureau)

    Population Decline in Rural America Is Reversing

    Rural Reversal

    COVID-19, remote work and demographic shifts ended decades of population decline in rural America. 

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