A book from the U.S. Department of Agriculture sits in the rubble of an abandoned building in Burke County, N.D. Because of a dwindling farm economy over the last 30 years, 42 percent of Midwestern farmers earn less than $20,000 annually. Without government intervention, 10 percent of farmers could not survive one year, says former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
