Farm Policy and Rural Issues
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified at a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing on agriculture policy. Addressing an ongoing baby formula shortage, Secretary Vilsack…
278 viewsAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack testified at a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee hearing on agriculture policy. Addressing an ongoing baby formula shortage, Secretary Vilsack…
278 viewsViewers responded to the question “Why is there an urban-rural divide in America?”
1,176 viewsViewers responded to the question “Why is there an urban-rural divide in America?”
453 viewsFormer Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), founder of the One Country Project, talked about rural voters and their impact on elections.
341 viewsAgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and experts talked about rural development in a virtual conversation with the Brookings Institution. Topics included re-buidling U.S. infrastructure,…
64 viewsCatherine Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, reflected on her efforts to improve water and sanitation conditions in rural areas across America.…
650 viewsThe House Small Business Subcommittee on Underserved, Agricultural, and Rural Business Development held a hearing to examine ways to help rebuild rural economies and small businesses amid…
215 viewsJournalist Grace Olmstead talked about the consequences of the abandonment of farm towns in the United States, and her own decision to leave the farm town she grew up in. This virtual event…
950 viewsJournalist Brian Alexander reported on the state of rural hospitals in America by looking closely at the hospital in his hometown of Bryan, Ohio. This virtual program was hosted by the…
382 viewsAuthors Sarah Smarsh, Thomas Burton, and Wayne Winkler reflected on life in Appalachia. This was a virtual event hosted by the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville.
468 viewsPulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn reported on the issues facing the working-class in rural America. This virtual event was hosted by the Boston Book…
401 viewsKaiser Health News' Sarah Jane Tribble, who hosts the “Where It Hurts” podcast, discussed the state of rural hospitals in the U.S.
397 viewsNational Rural Health Association President Pat Schou discussed challenges facing rural health care facilities during the coronavirus pandemic.
304 viewsThis National Interagency Fire Center film tells the story of a seminal series of wildfires in August, 1910, that burned three million acres in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana,…
655 viewsFilmed in the mountains of Kentucky, this documentary funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation was produced to show the educational and economic needs of rural, working class Americans. It…
328 viewsHouse lawmakers examined the coronavirus impact on rural economies and small businesses. Business leaders from Iowa, Ohio, and Vermont virtually testified about their experiences before the…
184 viewsNTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield talked about the ways small-town and rural broadband providers have adapted to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as their efforts to bridge the “digital divide”…
410 viewsCNN political analyst and former South Carolina state representative Bakari Sellers examined the socioeconomic challenges Americans in the rural south face through the lens of his hometown…
729 viewsSenator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Representative Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), health policy experts, and former lawmakers addressed the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on rural health care.…
545 viewsFocus on Rural America hosted a video conference with former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Farmers Union President Rob Larew and others on the impact of the coronavirus…
116 views