Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

Counties with outdoor recreation economies are more likely to attract new residents with greater wealth and have faster-growing wages than their non-recreation counterparts. These trends are ...

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 ...

My first academic job was as an extension rural development economist in my home state. At the time there were strong connections between Cooperative Extension in each of the states and an Extension ...

The Office for Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development serves both secondary and postsecondary students in rural areas in an effort to create a bridge between secondary education and career ...

MANNING, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina is in the midst of an economic development boon, as companies vow to spend billions of dollars in capital investment and create thousands of new jobs. For South ...

Sen. Corey Simon and the Florida Rural Economic Development Association hosted Rural Counties Day at the Capitol on Thursday, celebrating what organizers described as Florida’s “rural renaissance” and ...

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 ...

On June 1, U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development kicked off National Home ownership Month and this year's theme is "Rural Housing, Rural Jobs" The Obama administration is committed to ...

The Rural Renaissance plan creates opportunities to expand education, increase health care services and modernize commerce.

South Carolina announced $9.12 billion in capital investment and more than 8,100 new jobs in 2025.

The South Carolina Department of Commerce released its 2025 industry recruitment results Wednesday noting the highest ...