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When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn't set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have.

From last resort to a "strategic choice" to enter the workforce earlier, Gen Z is turning to the GED to rush through high ...

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Rural arts programs helped Eastern Kentucky maker Cynthia Main develop Sunhouse Craft, a sustainable business with an ...

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline for thousands of rural energy program grantees, who’ve been promised funding totaling $10.8 ...

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Michael B. Jordan as both brothers Stack and Smoke in 'Sinners' (2025) (Credit: Warner Brothers via IMDb). Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a ...

Nimrod Workman started working in Appalachian coal mines at age 14, before World War I. He had to quit from injuries, including black lung, in 1952. In the early 1970s he began recording mining songs, ...

This story was produced with support from the LOR Foundation. LOR works with people in rural places to improve quality of life. All photos by Ilana Newman. One of the first things you notice when you ...

A headstone at the cemetery of the U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The base was also the location of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which operated with a mission to ...