Rural

Biden Administration officials have been visiting the West a lot to promote spending packages like the Inflation Reduction Act. They’ve already directed more than $50 billion to the region. But it's unclear if rural residents care.

Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The episode originally aired in March 2022. This is part II of a two-part interview. An interview with Ryanne Pilgeram, author of Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West. In the book, a small town weighs the economic compromises of growth in the Rocky Mountain West.

Note: This is part I of a two-part interview, which originally aired in March 2022. An interview with Ryanne Pilgeram, author of Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West. In the book, a small town weighs the economic compromises of growth in the Rocky Mountain West.

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered daycare closures and with costs rising, many parents in Idaho are struggling to find child care and rural areas are hit even harder.

As natural disasters strike the Mountain West, rural communities face some barriers to recovery. But they can’t always get their hands on climate resilience funding.

Community development experts in Utah have published a step-by-step guide to help rural communities attract private investment.

Though the death rate in rural America has decreased since the end of September, it is still significantly higher than in urban areas.

The Biden administration announced last week that it's giving $502 million in loans and grants to rural communities and telecommunications companies to expand high-speed internet access. The list of grantees includes projects in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming.

A federal program is giving about $30,000 to individual rural communities to help them develop outdoor recreation economies.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is making a major investment to expand high-speed internet access in rural areas, including parts of the Mountain West.