Sentences with phrase «many rural residents»

The divide between Virginians living in the northern suburbs and the state's rural residents has resulted in an divisive, toxic political atmosphere.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

A fund dedicated to rural startups also sends an important message to rural residents, who feel increasingly feel left behind by a rapidly changing economy.

Suburban Canadians drive farther and more often than do rural residents.

And those views appear to feed the rural - urban divide: A 56 percent majority of rural residents says the federal government does more to help people living in and around large cities, while 37 percent feel they treat both urban and rural areas equally.

This included allowing organizations to securely disburse bulk cash through the SurePay Service, helping rural residents pay for clean water and electricity, launching the ride - hailing app Little and the music streaming service Songa, besides integrating M - Pesa into the Google Play store.

More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.

Tamela Walhof, a regional organizer for Bread for the World, says many rural residents have to drive an hour and 15 minutes to the grocery store and bus their children two and half hours to school.

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

Rural residents tend to vote for the Republican ticket, although there are sizable numbers of Conservative Democrats who cross party lines and vote Republican in national elections.

Ms. Hodge said North Country Mass Transit would act like a city bus system but serve rural residents.

New York state Assemblyman D. Billy Jones visited a senior technology program in Plattsburgh that serves rural residents of the region to discover how those who use it benefit from the service.

This technological shift has obvious implications for political communicators, since many rural residents have been hard to reach and harder to organize.

These instances of self - denial make difficult any attempt to determine the extent to which rural residents feel they have attained anything approximating to an adequate life, let alone a good life.

«With today's approval, the Legislature has provided critical funding for the Rural Outreach Center, which works on a tight budget to help as many rural residents as possible.

The recent regs against wood boilers are a direct hit against poor rural residents who can not afford propane or pellets to keep their homes warm in the winter — apparently there are no DEC bureaucrats in need of heating assistance.

Rural areas have a more solitary lifestyle, less affected by or dependent upon governments or other people, because neither the government nor other people tend to play as large a role in a rural resident's life.

Well - intended medical programs that work in cities and suburbs do not easily reach rural residents in our geographically vast district.

For most rural residents, their volunteer firefighters (and EMTs) are hometown heroes dedicated to preserving life and property.

And in recent days, Mr. Flanagan has shown flashes of political sophistication in his own party, working outward from his base on Long Island — where nine Republican state senators, including Mr. Skelos, live — while reassuring more conservative upstate Republicans on issues like the Safe Act, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, which he supported but many rural residents abhor.

«Any proposal should be premised on a principle of fairness to all New Yorkers, city residents, suburbanites and rural residents alike.

PLATTSBURGH Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) is reintroducing a pair of bills designed to boost broadband for farmers and rural residents.

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

A 1 - mile walking distance for urban and rural residents or a 10 - minute drive for urban residents and 20 - minute drive for rural residents were considered reasonable availability to a WIC retailer.

The Shangluo facility, opened in May, is the first of several «supercenters» that will be located in apartment complexes being built in provincial towns to encourage rural residents to move off their isolated plots.

The North Carolina study includes both rural and urban areas, creating adequate representation by African - American and rural residents.

He praised the ingenuity, perseverance, and compassion that the students have shown in projects that include a water - purification system for rural residents and a motorized chair to position those with disabilities during therapy.

The researchers also discovered that rural residents, whose lifestyle puts them in daylight more, retire and rise an hour earlier than city dwellers.

(Rural residents in this calculation require more calories to offset their daily activities.)

While these monocultures may be a simpler route for China's rural residents — who receive cash and food payments, as well as technical support to reforest land — the single - species approach brings very limited biodiversity benefits, and, in some cases, even harms wildlife.

She also investigates food and nutrition issues among older rural residents.

One in every ten American adults has used an online dating site or a. Urban and suburban residents are more likely than rural residents to.

By the same token, substantially more urbanites who are looking for dates (58 %) find it easy to meet people in their communities than do suburbanites and rural residents.

That is more than double the 13 % that did so when we last asked about this behavior in 2005.16 Women are a bit more likely than men to conduct this type of research, those with a college education are more likely to do so than those who have not attended college, urban and suburbanites are more likely to do so than rural residents, and online daters are more likely to do so than non-online daters.

Nonetheless, this is the last 2011 Oscar winner shut - ins and rural residents can cross off their checklist, as Sony issues it today as a pricey two - disc Blu - ray + DVD Combo Pack in the vein of other recent Sony Pictures Classics titles with modest retail potential.

But rural residents need to avoid making matters worse for themselves.

To explore the issue of public funding, we randomly assigned respondents to one of four questions that identified different targets of online education: rural residents, advanced students, students who dropped out of school, and home - schooled children (Q. 9).

Adult: Educational Functioning Level, Initial Fee Status Education Functioning Level, Final Rural Resident Student Goals Test Form Test Level Test Name Test Score Test Subject Content

Rural residents (79 %) are more likely than urban (65 %) residents to think that it is easier to share printed books.

The USDA Rural Housing Service has various programs available to aid low - to moderate - income rural residents to purchase, construct, repair, or relocate a dwelling and related facilities.

Designed for low - and moderate - income rural residents, Rural Housing Loans are offered by the Rural Housing Service of the U.S.D.A.

After all rural residents not only have to contend with the fees but they often have to move closer to the college or universities and pay rent as well.

The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) provides financing to farmers and rural residents across the nation through multiple loan programs.

For suburban and rural residents with low incomes and little or no savings, homeownership is an impossible dream — or so they thought.

This type of mortgage loan is offered to «rural residents who have a steady, low or modest income, and yet are unable to obtain adequate housing through conventional financing.»

Here are a few reminders about the Kentucky USDA Rural Housing Service (RHS) Section 502 Guaranteed program which provides very - low -, low - and moderate - income rural residents access to affordable housing finance options with little or no down payment or out - of - pocket costs.

The purpose of this loan program is to enable eligible low and moderate income (up to 115 percent of the Area Median Family Income) rural residents to acquire modestly priced housing for their own use as a primary residence.

The Rural Housing Service (RHS) of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture guarantees loans for rural residents with minimal closing costs and no downpayment.

The no money down feature of a USDA mortgage has provided many rural residents with the ability to buy a home who would otherwise be locked out of homeownership.

Buying a home is now well within reach for rural residents thanks to USDA rural home loans.