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Employers looking to tap the ‘labor reserve’ for new workers may need to be willing to meet them halfway on their needs Dr. Adee Athiyaman reports that about 26,000 rural […]


Rural Doctors Are Using Influence To Get Their Patients To Take The COVID-19 Vaccine Many county health departments are under-resourced, facing significant staffing shortages or don’t have the expertise to […]


Grocery store closing is part of a bigger issue The current situation in Nokomis is what some researchers, including Western Illinois University’s Sean Park, call a ‘food swamp.’ Park said, […]


About half of American adults lived in middle-income households in 2014, according to anew Pew Research Center analysis of government data. More…


AM I Rural?

Here is a neat little site from the Rural Health Information HUB (formerly the Rural Assistance Center or RAC). It is called the “Am I Rural? Tool”. All you need […]


2016 Midwest Community Development Institute The complete Midwest CDI program consists of attending three four-day sessions, referred to as Year One, Year Two, and Year Three. Year One focuses on the […]