Poverty is most often thought of as an urban problem, but 25 percent more poor people live in small towns or in the country than in metropolitan areas. Of the 200 counties in the United States that ...

Chaplains of the Harbor staff pose with Harbor Roots Farm sign, which reads: ‘Healing the land and people together.’ (Photo by Barbara Weza) Grays Harbor County, Washington used to be home to the ...

Rural towns in Hampshire County can go the distance on road repair after the state tweaked its Chapter 90 funding formula to give more weight to the number of miles of roads within a community. The ...

New England has some of the highest energy costs in the country. Cold winters, along with other rising expenses, have rural ...

Connecticut’s affordable housing statute, known as 8-30g, was enacted with an important goal: expanding housing opportunity statewide. That goal remains valid. But decades later, the law’s ...

South Africa’s Limpopo province borders Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique. It is one of the poorest provinces in the country.