Claire Carlson

Portland

Collaborations Correspondent at The Daily Yonder

Writing about rural communities, politics, and the environment for @dailyyonder

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Articles

Idolizing the "Tradwife" Is Tricky Business

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week.
Dismantling the Head Start Program Will Hurt Rural Families

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

The Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate the federally funded childcare program Head Start will disproportionately harm low-income rural families who could be left without childcare if the service is defunded.
America Is Not Immune to Fascism

3 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. First he came for the Department of Agriculture, pausing grant payments and loans to small farmers and canceling Forest Service contracts for prescribed burns.
Q&A: Romantacizing Rural Desert Life, with Michael Branch

3 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Living in the desert is no easy feat, much less the rural desert on 49 hilly acres at the end of a 2.3-mile-long dirt road.
"Today’s children are our future. And if we believed in that future, we’d invest in it.”

4 weeks ago | us9.campaign-archive.com | Hannah McClellan |Liz Bell |Lane Fischer |Claire Carlson

Senate budget includes raises and funds for Propel NC, requires administrative cuts by Hannah Vinueza McClellan Contents Pay and benefits Other workforce investments Enrollment Alignment with high schools Community college reductions Helene aid and funds for individual colleges The North Carolina Senate released its 2025-27 budget proposal on April 14, allocating approximately $73 million over the… Continue reading → Senate budget updates child care subsidy rates, lacks subsidy floor by Liz...
Education leaders urge congress to pass Secure Rural Schools Act, but warn it’s an unsustainable funding solution

4 weeks ago | ednc.org | Lane Fischer |Claire Carlson

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the northeast corner of the state. The expansive forest might inspire dreams of outdoor adventure for locals, but for Trinity County and other rural forest communities across the U.S., it also represents a fraught cycle of inadequate public school funding.
Education Leaders Urge Congress to Pass Secure Rural Schools Act, But Warn It’s an Unsustainable Funding Solution

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson |Lane Fischer

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the northeast corner of the state. The expansive forest might inspire dreams of outdoor adventure for locals, but for Trinity County and other rural forest communities across the U.S., it also represents a fraught cycle of inadequate public school funding.
Privatizing the Postal Service Would Hurt Rural Americans

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. I have a deep appreciation of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that stems from my grandmother, the former postmaster of the Picture Rocks post office in rural Pennsylvania.
Q&A: Does USDA's Spending Freeze Undermine the Legitimacy of a Government Contract?

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Jonathan Coppess is no stranger to federal farm policy.
The Dangers of Shushing Constituents at Town Halls

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Across three days last week, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held five rallies in three states on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour – an admonishment of the billionaires that have taken over the White House. Tens of thousands of people showed up in places like Tucson and Tempe, Arizona, Greeley and Denver, Colorado, and Las Vegas, Nevada.