Ruth Abram

The establishment of a small business that is passed on through generations of family members is a common fact of rural American life. Despite the…

There are two kinds of people who live in rural America: those born here, and those who moved here. If you think it odd that people would abandon the…

Alarmed by a study documenting the demise of America’s small rural towns, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack called for “a national commitment to…