Access to health care is a big one as rural hospitals close. Two researchers who focus on rural issue explain how the federal ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate ... with outsiders wielding influence over their local resources. Here are some ways we believe ...

Local business owner Kris Kass fears President Donald Trump’s economic policies may negatively impact her businesses. Kass, ...

A patchwork of definitions of rural versus urban areas has real consequences for communities seeking federal funding.

The Mercatus Center has one of the best summaries of what it calls "anti-aid provisions" in state constitutions across the ...

The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual. The billionaire is creating major ...

Trump, ever the businessman, has often complained that government regulations stifle economic development. The new order requires federal agencies to repeal "at least 10 existing rules ...

Americans don’t know the full extent of what Elon Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government. What we know is that he’s the world’s ...

Trump Directly Calls for U.S.A.I.D. to Be Shut Down The ousted director of federal prisons contests her firing, citing civil service rules. Vance calls for reinstatement of DOGE worker who ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Monday that Democrats will use the coming battle over government funding as a vehicle to block President Trump’s early efforts to gut federal ...