After the Fire: Vulnerable Communities Respond and Rebuild
Federal and state agencies need to ensure that vulnerable communities are able to recover during and after the next wildfire.
Rural communities face a broad range of challenges in the 21st century, from demographic change to access to essential services, to economic hardship. The Center for American Progress’ growing research on rural America aims to build inclusive rural narratives and develop equitable, progressive solutions.
Federal and state agencies need to ensure that vulnerable communities are able to recover during and after the next wildfire.
In order to afford all Americans access to higher education, policymakers must recognize how geography and race affect students’ attainment of postsecondary degrees.
Land conservation and access can help states grow this critical sector.
Improved access to quality child care would support economic security in rural communities, which have unique child care needs.
Inclusive progressive solutions are key to addressing the structural racism of previous U.S. farm policies—something that nearly wiped out black farmers.
A new analysis of child care supply in every U.S. neighborhood finds that approximately half the country has too few licensed child care options.
The small Nebraskan towns of Lexington and Madison offer encouraging examples of how proactivity and practicality can help communities embrace the nation’s multicultural destiny and emerge stronger for their collective efforts.
Immigrants are playing a key role in reviving and growing many rural communities and with the right policies could play an even bigger role in sustaining them.
Congress has passed a solution to keep wildfires from dominating U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department budgets. Now it should give these agencies the tools to deliver the greatest benefits to public safety and forest health.
These 10 state facts sheets provide comprehensive new information on the number of rural families served by Head Start, including rates of health service delivery.
Rural communities across the country are moving beyond reliance on boom-and-bust extractive industries toward a more prosperous and sustainable future that is rooted in their land, history, and way of life.
Head Start helps fill a critical void in early childhood education and service delivery in rural America.
While all rural workers make less, rural women of color face an especially large wage gap.
The farm bill is America's largest funding source for private lands conservation; its programs can be better leveraged to attract billions of dollars in private investment, increasing the economic and environmental benefits of conservation on working lands.
Author Katherine Gallagher Robbins outlines a progressive plan for ending rural poverty that would ensure that all Americans have access to the opportunities and support they need to thrive.