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A new analysis suggests that over half of communities in the West lack the capacity to take advantage of infrastructure bill funding. Now what?   Bounded by the Bitterroot…

Rural hospitals are the lifeblood of their communities — providing jobs and economic impact, keeping people healthy mentally and physically — but they’ve had a tough time of it: staffing shortages, supply chain interruptions, the loss…

Hundreds of urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, but it’s not because people are leaving.It’s just that the U.S. Census Bureau is changing the definition of an urban area. Under the new criteria, more than 1,300 small cities,…

Explore full-page version of the map The rate of new Covid-19 infections climbed by more than 50% in the past two weeks, but the overall number of new infections remains nearly as low as it was last summer before the start of…

Officially, the U.S. will almost certainly reach an awful milestone in the next two weeks: its one millionth recorded Covid-19 death. In reality, this milestone was likely unofficially crossed days or weeks ago, and we’ll never know…

Explore full-page version of the map The number of new Covid-19 infections in rural America has climbed for a fourth consecutive week but remains at its lowest level since the summer 2021, according to a Daily Yonder analysis.…

The 2020 census missed nearly 1 of every 17 Native Americans who live on reservations, an undercount that could very well lead to insufficient federal funding for essential health, nutrition, and social programs in remote…

Safety-net, “neighborhood” health centers date back to Johnson’s presidency and his War on Poverty. Those were the catalyst for what we now call Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and today 1,368 of them have been…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and two years into a global pandemic that has highlighted the need for increased access to mental health care, 570 counties across the United States still have no psychologists, psychiatrists or…

Explore full-page version of the map The rate of new Covid-19 infections in rural America climbed by a third last week, the fifth increase in as many weeks, according to a Daily Yonder analysis. New infections in metropolitan…