It serves as a lifeline in a county where nearly 40% of residents are living in poverty ... been in Mississippi, landing the state in the Top 5 in the nation for closures. Many rural hospitals ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

Oprah Winfrey: Rural Poverty to Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey‘s journey to billionaire status is among the most iconic rags-to-riches stories. Born in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother ...

Millions of people endure the difficulties of poverty and social vulnerability ... between dense urban areas and sparsely populated rural areas, you have a large population at great risk. Mississippi ...

But more than 20% of rural residents who make less than twice the federal poverty level (up to $30,400 for a family ...

A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become ... will be the distress of the latter, from poverty, famine, and perhaps pestilence." Another flood in New Orleans produces ...

Seventy percent of children in the U.S. don’t read proficiently in third grade. “But what we know at Scholastic from kids’ ...

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Heller's staff wanted ten local community-action agencies, five urban and five rural. Hackett thought that even this was too much, and proposed that the initial funding for the War on Poverty be $ ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917, the 20th child of Lou Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers east of the Mississippi Delta ... where they stayed with rural relatives for some time before ...

"Gone are the days when rural isolation and remoteness could conceal the injustice of unconstitutional policing," said Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi.