Oct 31, 2024 · A 2018 Center for American Progress report found that 86% of 1,760 rural counties in the U.S. had a Head Start program. More than 50,000 people were employed at these rural facilities. (Rural counties were defined using the 2023 USDA Economic Research Service Rural Urban Continuum Codes.) “It’s really hard to overstate the value of this program,” Gibbs said.

Dec 12, 2024 · Project 2025 proposes “an end to SBA direct lending,” which is only ever offered to communities after a natural disaster, according to the Center for American Progress.. Whether Trump will follow the Project 2025 recommendations, which were written by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, has been widely debated by pundits.

Jun 13, 2024 · It’s one of my favorite scenes in any film, the diner standoff at the conclusion of 1994’s “Pulp Fiction.” Where that film ends, with a fateful encounter between a diner patron and a pair of robbers, 2024’s “The Last Stop in Yuma County” begins. When an unnamed protagonist, credited simply as “The Knife Salesman,” finds himself stranded without gas at …

Oct 28, 2024 · The graph shows the statewide presidential results in 2008 and 2020, followed by a projected statewide tally if Vice President Kamala Harris does 3% worse than Joe Biden did with rural (nonmetro) voters in 2020 (gray column) or 3% better (light blue bar).

Jul 25, 2024 · Kevin Costner in a piece of promotional art for "Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1" (Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media ...

Dec 13, 2024 · The USDA’s Census of Agriculture, which is conducted every five years, collects data on land use, farm ownership, income, crop sales, and inventory, among other things.It started in 1840 as a way for government agencies and researchers to study American agriculture. In 2022, the most recent year of available data, Oregon sold $161.3 million in Christmas trees, accounting for 34% of all sales ...

Apr 4, 2024 · About a month ago I got a text from a friend about a TV show. Aware of my reporting on rural Colorado and my love for reality TV, she knew that “Home Town Takeover,” an HGTV series that claims to makeover an entire small town, would be just up my alley. The second season of “Home Town Takeover” is set in Fort Morgan, Colorado, a small town in the Eastern Plains, about an hour from Denver.

Dec 31, 2024 · At the Prospect, Janie wrote about the difficulty of running for office without personal wealth, state efforts to reform predatory lending, the potential of Black congregations to play a role in climate justice, and more.. Like the rest of the Yonder staff, Janie worked remotely. She was a quiet but regular presence in our frequent newsroom online huddles.

Oct 29, 2024 · This story was originally published by The Conversation.. Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts.And traditional Native American farming practices tell us that squash and beans likely were part of that 1621 dinner too.

Apr 9, 2024 · Kyle Zebley, senior vice president of public policy at the American Telemedicine Association who also lobbies on Capitol Hill, said Congress “might well be in that lame-duck period.” “This is no way to run a health care system on a popular bipartisan issue,” he said.