Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Documentary filmmakers Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing discuss the underlying causes of the opioid ...

West Virginia University received a $6.7 million NIDA grant to scale a successful youth substance use prevention pilot into roughly 140 schools across 36 rural counties.

The idea of poverty in America often appears in statistics and shaded maps, but in the ridges and hollows of West Virginia, it is a daily reality. It is not an issue to be debated on Sunday talk shows ...

Nationally, 22.2% rural children are living in poverty – more than 1 in 5 kids – in comparison to 17.7% of children living in non-rural communities. Rural child poverty is higher than non-rural in 39 ...

"Invisible America" is a poignant film that delves into the harsh realities of poverty in the United States. Through compelling visual storytelling without narration, it exposes the hopelessness and ...

Rural America has a lawyer shortage. According to an article published by the University of California Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality Research, while roughly 20% of Americans live in rural ...

After rural voters in past elections turned out big for former President Donald Trump, a narrative emerged that rural, white America had shifted right. The emergence of Tim Walz and JD Vance as vice ...

I did not get on a plane or leave the country until I was 15. Where I grew up in West Virginia, not many of my neighbors had passports—most had never left the country. When I got a passport to go on ...