USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

The blog highlights and summarizes a policy brief written by Catherine Brinkley, an associate professor of Human Ecology and Director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis, and M. Anne Visser, ...

Picture the scene: It’s a ribbon cutting in a small town for a new business incubator that has opened in a formerly vacant storefront. There are speeches, balloons, lots of smiles, and a feeling of ...

Jon Willow will head the organization focusing on business attraction and retention, workforce development, infrastructure ...

The Nebraska State Capitol building as seen on the opening day of the Nebraska legislative session, in Lincoln, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. AP Photo/Nati Harnik As the 109th Nebraska Legislature is ...

Investing in these projects provides opportunities for smaller, rural communities to make themselves more appealing to their ...

RALEIGH – Nineteen rural North Carolina communities will participate in a new program to boost their economic development capacity, under a pilot initiative from the state’s Department of Commerce.

In the village of Kyzart in Naryn Province, Kyrgyzstan, little was known about the transformative power of vegetable farming. A simple change to the diets of rural households—a smidge of horticulture ...

Rural towns and counties in Maryland are aggressively pursuing economic development, hoping to draw in larger employers while strengthening the home-grown shops and businesses that have been mainstays ...

Alabama’s rural communities now have a state position devoted to helping with economic development projects. Department of Commerce Secretary Greg Canfield announced today that Brenda Tuck has been ...

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp and Economic Development Commissioner Pat Wilson announced Wednesday that Tift County’s Brian Marlowe will be the new deputy commissioner for rural Georgia. Marlowe has been ...