Sentences with phrase «few rural communities»

Very few rural communities have lawyers or courts, and some communities in urban centers such as Anchorage and Fairbanks face high unemployment and poverty.

Few rural communities have the mental health and other social services that are commonly available in urban areas.

Moscow, Idaho — Linda Royse attends a one - room school here, but not the kind that still exists in a few rural communities scattered throughout the West.

Not exact matches

If agricultural policies allow fewer people to produce more goods, for the orthodox economist destruction of thousands of rural communities does not count against their virtue.

Few can deny that the rising crime rate and abuse of drugs are related to the destruction of rural and urban communities that are the direct result of economic policies aimed at the one goal of increasing production.

Living in a rural community, where mullets have yet to reach extinction, I confess to releasing more than a few knowing chuckles while visiting the site.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

But official definitions of rural often just mean «not urban,» she says, and the Wisconsin residency program will make sure that communities considered «very rural» — those serving fewer than 20,000 people — will be the focus.

Each rural African community has about 5 acres of land, which supports small seasonal vegetable gardens that grow limited supplies of corn, pumpkins, watermelons, spinach and papayas, and a variety of animals, chickens, goats, and maybe a few cattle.

I live in a small rural community, a few miles from my home temple, the Palyul Nyingma Retreat Center.

It only takes a few seconds to join the site and start searching the online community for equestrians, country sports lovers, farmers, farriers, vets, and all types of rural romantics living in your area.

There's even a few fantasy elements woven throughout the game's light story, a delightfully unexpected anachronism to the «modern rural community» tone set early on.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

And as David Miller notes in his 2014 eLearning article Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives, besides physical college campuses often feeling too far and few between, living in a rural community «can be even more difficult for students to find experts in the fields they're interested in».

ACE characteristically sends its teachers to inner - city schools, although a few go to rural communities.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

If state policymakers expand voucher programs, this could increase the tax burden of citizens, especially those living in rural communities and small school districts with fewer students.

Issues in rural schools can include fewer resources for students and teachers; lack of access to professional development and student training opportunities; community isolation; students having the same teachers for multiple subjects and grade levels; and fewer extracurricular activities.

In Oregon and California this year, students will spend fewer days in the classroom; in rural communities from New Mexico to Idaho, some students will be in school only four days a week.

I'm glad people are weighing in on this issue, because creating No Kill in poor rural communities and small towns that have few resources is the next big challenge for No Kill.

Like many = other = 20 rural / semi-urban communities, the Tompkins County SPCA is the only = animal = 20 organization in the county, aside from a few dog or cat fanciers that = also do = 20 rescue.

An additional 4,000 surgeries are completed through community veterinarians and our mobile clinic traveling to more than seven counties to assist rural shelters and desperate pet owners that have few other options.

We live in a very rural community and we don't have dog parks or limited areas that lots of dogs play in — we have mostly stay at home dogs who interact with a few dogs in their neighborhood.

The experience has also informed us on some of the challenges in working with a rural community, which have fewer local resources to draw upon.

Other states: Based on queries to investor - owned utilities there and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, thus far Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are the Southeast states with few, if any, community solar options whether through co-op, municipalities or investor - owned utilities.

A few years ago, we reported on the PlayPump, a design that incorporates the power of kids at play to pump and store drinking water for communities in Rural Africa.

From a more practical standpoint, higher tuition fees and a more elite class of law graduate will likely translate into fewer lawyers engaging in public interest practice (unless a newly robust culture of noblesse oblige ascends), and fewer lawyers willing or able to serve in under - served (i.e. rural, humble) home communities.

«There will likely be an acceleration of staff shortages throughout the industry, but especially in rural markets where we have already seen a few senior housing communities having to close due to insufficient staff,» Carle says.

Manufactured homes serve many housing needs in a wide range of communities — from rural areas where housing alternatives (rental or purchase) are few and construction labor is scarce and / or costly, to higher - cost metropolitan areas.

And I saw it just a few weeks ago, when my family and I spent spring break with my paternal grandparents at their retirement community in rural Missouri.

Everyone who lives in our (rural) community picks up their mail there, so I thought it would make for a great location to surprise a few different people at one time.