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When LeyAnn Gehlen-Wampler of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, gave birth to her son last year, she faced a common dilemma in rural communities:  She needed to work to pay her living expenses, but the cost of childcare—if she could find it—would be more than...

This story was originally published by KFF Health News.
Imagine starting the new year with the promise of at least a $147 million payout from the federal government.
But there are strings attached.

Author Daniel Woodrell penned a grainy portrait of southern Missouri filled with the “violence and squalor of his native Ozarks.” Those aren’t my words – they were published in The New York Times upon his passing last November.
I never met the “country noir” author, whose fame went far beyond the Ozarks where he was born, left, and returned. He was most famous for “Winter’s Bone,” the book-turned-hit movie that showcased drugs, poverty, and murder – and helped introduce actress...

Blaine Halverson joked that his only exposure to data centers was from the Mission Impossible movies in the 1990s. That was, until one came to his town. Over the last seven months, Halverson’s community of Menomonie, Wisconsin, population 16,700, has...