Rural America has lots of opportunities and challenges, particularly when it comes to employment. This piece explores the ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analyzed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84%. Credit: Josias Láng-Ritter et.

There could be billions more people living on Earth than currently thought, according to a new study which claims rural figures worldwide could be vastly underestimated. Currently, the UN estimates ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we ...

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or ...

While Pennsylvania is best known for its marquee metropolises of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, its beating heart is, arguably, found within the farms, forests and rolling mountains that thousands of ...

A view of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania lawmakers hope a new commission created to encourage people to live in rural areas can stem the population decline happening in those parts of the ...

Growing up in the Bald Hills of northern York County’s Conewago Township, I definitely felt like I lived in rural Pennsylvania. I considered the Jamesway in Etters “the mall.” Heck, we couldn’t even ...