At this one-day, online workshop, you'll hear from experts who can help you report on the implications of the “OBBBA,” uncover the consequences, and report on how individuals and communities in rural America are likely to be affected by the law. As you learn more about what’s in the law, you’ll pick up tips you can apply to your reporting on these dramatic changes everywhere. Sessions will include:
- An update on rural health, data, and data challenges in 2025
- How cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will affect rural communities
- Lessons from Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements
- How being disconnected is killing rural Americans
- The inside story: Voices from the front line workforce
- Understanding the opioid epidemic’s toll on rural America
- Overcoming barriers to vaccination in rural America
