Interview with Claire Strom, author of Profiting From the Plains.

While economic conditions have improved for American Indians living on reservations, poverty remains prevalent, and tribes face deep challenges in their efforts to develop.

Many worry over the loss of intercity bus and train service. But local, on-demand transit service is more critical for rural mobility.

Promoting groups of similar and interrelated businesses is the rage in states and regions across the nation. What's a government to do?

Food processing in the district is doing surprisingly well. But its future-and that of rural areas that attract food plants-depends on economic forces that run much deeper than the recent downturn