Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural ...

The families of more than a quarter of all children living in rural America would benefit from a proposed expansion of the Child Tax Credit that has passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now ...

This was not the case in Albania, where no difference was perceived. In the Maldives, the inequality in the prevalence of undernutrition was 64% when poor urban children were compared with poor rural.

Public perception often associates the health-care safety net used by more than 1 in 5 Americans with the urban poor. But rural children and non-elderly adults are more likely to rely on Medicaid ...

To be fair, a lot of people will benefit from President Trump’s bill. Wealthy taxpayers will have larger estate tax exemptions in addition to bigger breaks on business income and capital gains. But ...