As health-care workforce shortages deepen nationwide, many of the most practical, scalable solutions are emerging not from large urban systems, but from rural communities willing to rethink how talent ...

Explore the big questions surrounding rural health transformation program funding and its impact on stabilizing rural hospitals amid Medicaid cuts.

There are numerous challenges to providing high quality STEM education and workforce development in rural areas. Recognizing these challenges, the National Academies was directed to undertake a ...

The new federal program is providing $50 billion to states over a five-year period beginning in fiscal year 2026.

Ms. Conner is a mother of six children. A grandmother of twice as many. She was raised on a farm, knows the meaning of hard work and reads her Bible daily. Unexpectedly, she suffered a stroke at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dave Whittemore works in Kennebec Valley Community College’s heat pump lab, where he teaches students how to install and maintain ...

The key to population, and thus economic, growth in small towns is available, affordable housing and workforce investments, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin said Tuesday ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KY3) - The Missouri House of Representatives Special Interim Committee on Workforce Innovation and Technology held its final meeting Tuesday before a new legislative session ...

Delaware has applied for up to $1 billion in federal funding to address a rural health care crisis. The proposal includes 15 new programs, such as establishing the state's first medical school and ...

Maine has had success in adopting heat pumps across the state, and jobs have grown quickly — particularly in rural areas. But as the state approaches big deadlines for heat pump installation and ...

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