A parliamentary panel has expressed concern regarding the 2026-27 fiscal allocation for the Department of Rural Development. Although funding has increased by 21%, the focus is on the new VB-GRAMG ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

The Maryland House Rural Caucus, created by House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk just before the 2026 legislative session kicked off, is a bipartisan group aimed at elevating the concerns of rural ...

There are numerous challenges to providing high quality STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. Recognizing these challenges, the National Academies was directed to undertake a ...

Regardless of whether one casts economic hardship, nativist bigotry, or coastal elitism as the primary cause of the Democratic Party’s disrepute in small factory towns and the farm belt, the resulting ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

An effective education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) both develops STEM literacy skills and can prepare students for high-quality, well-paying careers. There have been ...