After several mild winters, this winter is apparently intent on testing our mettle. Sometimes the darkest days of the year are dark indeed.
Posted inEnvironment
Q&A: Where’s the Water Gone? On Learning to Forget, with Lucas Bessire
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Review: Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
The book takes a close-up look at the interdependence of farm workers and their employers and the urgent need for better regulation and policy for these relationships.
Posted inMedia
Rural Reporters Make Headlines in ‘Alaska Daily’
The new ABC show ‘Alaska Daily,’ starring Hilary Swank, puts rural reporters in the spotlight. The first season resumes in February.
Posted inCoronavirus
Rural Mississippi Led the Nation in Covid-19 Infection Rates Last Week
While Covid-19 infection and death rates generally dropped in rural areas last week, Mississippi reported a rural Covid-19 infection rate 67% higher than the national rural rate. Infections Rural America reported 53,398 new infections last week, a 13% drop and 8,244 fewer infections compared to the previous week. The infection rate was 115.92 cases per […]
Posted inTribal Affairs
New Partnership To Enhance Outdoor Spaces At Tribal Schools
The Bureau of Indian Education and the Trust for Public Land are partnering to create culturally relevant outdoor spaces as part of pilot projects at nine schools.
Posted inLabor
After a Brief Pandemic Reprieve, Rural Workers Return to Life Without Paid Leave
This story was originally published in Kaiser Health News. ELKO, Nevada — When Ruby B. Sutton found out she was pregnant in late 2021, it was hard to envision how her full-time job would fit with having a newborn at home. She faced a three-hour round-trip commute to the mine site where she worked as […]
Posted inHealth
A Year to Prepare – Organizers Work to Ensure 988 Helps Rural Residents Too
The efforts will include phone operators’ training, helping them better understand the needs and sensibilities of callers from rural areas of the country.
Posted inHealth
Report: 113K U.S. Indigenous Individuals Live in Mental Health Care Deserts
A lack of broadband access adds to the disparity with telemedicine gaining popularity as a mental health resource.
Posted inEnergy
Wind Farms Deliver Economic Jolt to Rural Middle America
This story was originally published by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. A wind power boom in the nation’s central corridor has been a financial windfall for some struggling rural areas. Coke County, Texas, which has a population of about 3,300, had the biggest increase in economic output of any county in the […]