Sentences with phrase «many rural counties»

We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

It is a largely suburban and rural county.

Carroll County is a largely rural county located in northern Maryland northeast of Baltimore.

Moreover, it's still unclear how sustainable the Obamacare markets are long term in the small, rural counties that have had the most trouble securing insurers.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

The initiative process and the Constitution Revision Commission, which is appointed every 20 years, owe their existence to a grossly unrepresentative Legislature that was controlled by rural counties with fewer than 20 percent of Florida's population.

I know I would want someone to call me out on it if I started trying to convince fishon how to pastor people in rural counties of the Southern US... wouldn't even know where to begin to connect to people like that.

«An investment in the wind power industry and in wind projects generates new jobs, economic development in rural counties and clean air benefits to all Coloradans.»

Missouri's heroin problem is worst in the rural counties near St. Louis.

But our local interviewing encompassed the entire range of religious bodies found at the seven sites where we interviewed (Seattle, Albuquerque, Chicago, Nashville, Hartford, and clusters of rural counties in central Missouri and central Alabama).

While the sparsely populated rural counties generally opposed the measure, the more populated counties favored it.

The gap between what people say and do in this rural county is roughly the same as that found in the original study among Catholics in 18 metropolitan dioceses.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

Support for rural counties Through a Rural Utilities Service grant, USDA is funding the Rural Iowa Food Waste Reduction Project.

In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counties.

I had done made up my mind we were going to issue the licenses and I thought that was it,» said Judge Leon Archer, a probate judge in a rural county that has stopped issuing the same - sex licenses but is still issuing licenses to heterosexual couples.

I live two hours outside of Portland in a rural county, and people in my county give birth at that hospital.

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

The Nebraska Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting (N - MIECHV) programs in Nebraska, including the Nebraska Panhandle region, metro areas of Lincoln and Omaha, rural counties in both nort...

So already Democratic district 2 would become more Democratic (and more compact, as it would replace a number of central rural counties with urban Linn towards the east).

Some opponents contend smaller and more rural counties would struggle with implementing early voting.

The burden of implementing early voting could fall heaviest on smaller and rural counties and they've proposed ways of making it easier for them to adopt the system, the letter states.

Rural counties favored in highway funding?

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

During his official pitch to DRC members, St Lawrence played up the fact that he is an elected official who understands that the «rubber hits the road» at the local level, although his home county, Rockland, is considerably more populous than the 47 rural counties represented here.

Obama has little prospect of pulling off Bill Clinton's magic of limiting the damage inflicted in rural counties.

«This [presidential] election taught us we need to find common ground with rural counties,» she said.

Some Republican lawmakers have raised concerns with the cost, especially on smaller rural counties and that it would become an unfunded mandate.

Rural counties in the US generally tend, (often overwhelmingly), to vote Republican, while metropolitan counties similarly tend to vote Democrat.

Thus the system does not have a great effect on the partisan composition of the Storting, but does result in more MPs coming from rural counties.

She polled 28.01 % in the district, which contains part or all of six rural counties in the southern end of the state.

Driscoll said he believes the candidates will struggle to win rural counties in the district.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

I sympathize with the problems faced by small rural counties, like Madison County and Montgomery County which is near me.

Many of the chairs — from less populous, more rural counties — appreciated Dinallo's pledge to post an assistant attorney general in every county.

It's the urban core of a largely rural county whose 160,000 residents voted twice for Barack Obama but swung to Trump in 2016.

New York State Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz supports the county clerk's decision, and says the decision in a small, rural county like Putnam has national importance when it comes to protecting privacy.

The governor pushed for a major gun - control law that the State Legislature passed last year in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and it has proved unpopular in more conservative, rural counties upstate.

The area from which the cases of cardiac arrests were drawn is a collection of urban, suburban and rural counties that account for approximately a quarter of North Carolina's population but included all EMS agencies.

«The rural counties are often the places struggling to find ways to boost growth, so this may be important news for them,» said Goetz.

Violations of health - related drinking water standards were more common in rural counties.

And when the researchers looked at what counties were most vulnerable, they found that low - income, rural counties were the hardest hit, especially in Oklahoma and in parts of Texas and Idaho.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

The small, rural counties are among few nationwide that allow marriages to be ended by mail, without a court appearance.

«Thus, there is no access to treatment for Medicaid enrollees in rural counties in Georgia, and similar disparities exist across the Southeast.»

Opioid - related deaths are also increasing in rural counties, they added.

«In other words, as we are facing a more uncertain future regarding water resources, rural counties are being left behind,» Arumugam says.

This study has advantages over other studies in that it includes individuals of low, middle, upper - middle and high individual wealth across 1,833 urban and rural counties in the United States, and a large number of both blacks and whites.

The original study into sanitation conditions by Edwin Chadwick in 1842 charted the average age by death and by occupational group for five areas in the UK — Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Bolton and Rutland, a rural county in Eastern England.

But a look at the county - level data reveals what may be the most important finding: most rural counties are getting less efficient, while most urban counties are getting more efficient.