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Rural issues
Rural issues news and analysis from The Nation
November 19, 2020
More than 60 percent of my county voted for Trump this year, so the relative calm when he lost gives me hope for the future.
October 28, 2020
Understanding community cultural perceptions of risk—the stories people tell themselves—is critical to understanding the Covid-19 pandemic.
September 28, 2020
In the months since a Black Lives Matter protest in Catskill, N.Y., one of the march’s organizer has decided to run for office. Change is coming to the rural town.
September 9, 2020
Officials hope the federal money, aimed at rebuilding economies ravaged by Covid-19, will support clean energy and carbon-cutting programs.
September 2, 2020
We left Manhattan for the Catskills in March; two months into the city’s lockdown, this rural county had the highest per capita number of new cases in the state.
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August 20, 2020
A rural marketing campaign offering “solace in a more secluded setting” might give Republicans more than they bargained for.
July 15, 2020
But it’s still there in rural New York—just as it is in Washington.
June 24, 2020
My town voted overwhelmingly for Trump, so I didn’t expect a big crowd at a recent Black Lives Matter protest. I was wrong.
June 2, 2020
Ninety percent of US counties with high rates of childhood hunger are rural, a new study finds.
May 27, 2020
But the pandemic has made the problem worse, too.
