Partners for Rural Transformation release policy paper

The Partners for Rural Transformation (PRT) is a national coalition dedicated to advancing economic mobility in persistent poverty areas. Collectively, the PRT members provide financial products and services that advance quality jobs, housing, infrastructure and address other vital needs in America where the poverty rate has exceeded 20 percent for at least three consecutive decades.

Private well owners in California counties invited to register for free well assessments

Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC), a nonprofit organization is offering private well owners free well assessments and water quality screening for nitrate.

Local farmers race against corporations for Arizona’s groundwater

Arizona’s driest regions have become a battleground for an increasingly limited groundwater supply. Out-of-state companies, drawn to Arizona by cheap land and lax water pumping regulations, have spent decades over-mining the state’s groundwater.

New report sheds light on LGBT rural Americans’ experiences

The Movement Advancement Project conducted a landmark study that explores the unique challenges of LGBT people of color who live in rural communities.

Sens. Durbin and Braun put forth plan for Office of Rural Economic Investment

Last month, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Mike Braun (R-IN) introduced legislation that would create a new department within the federal government.