Sentences with phrase «rural affairs]»

Nimmo is among the many rural folk, even in developed countries, that can't get broadband access.

The union says it also has problems with what it calls a two - tier pay scale for rural and urban mail carriers.

The reasons for rural hospital closures vary for every community but can include decreased demand for inpatient services, consolidation in the health - care space, and a state's decision of whether to expand Medicaid, Mark Holmes, director of NC RHRP, told CNBC.

Though not as well - known as some of his contemporaries, he has been compared to photographers like Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, and Walker Evans, the famed chronicler of Depression - era rural America.

Rural outsourcing as an entrepreneurial venture From a startup perspective, Hamilton sees opportunities for entrepreneurs interested in getting into the rural outsourcing industry.

For one thing, it's still in its infancy — there are only about 20 rural outsourcers throughout the United States, and many of those operations are rather limited in terms of service.

Moe told the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities on Friday that this is the second time in four years that grain shipments have been delayed.

An advantage for entrepreneurs looking to make a social impact is that rural - outsourcing work is more challenging and rewarding for skilled workers than many other local options.

There has been a total of 83 rural hospital closures in the United States from January 2010 to January 2018, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, a group which tracks rural hospital closures across the country.

«Satellite technology can help reach Americans who live in rural or hard - to - serve places where fiber optic cables and cell towers do not reach,» Pai said in a statement.

Such as the fact that as of 2010, about half of rural households in America did not have internet access at home.

On the topic of taxes, getting Section 179 and the bonus depreciation break extended is at the top of the wish list for rural communities in battle ground states like Arkansas, Kentucky and Iowa, Moore explained.

«Mortgage insurance allows Canadians across the country, in rural areas and big cities, to have the same opportunities to access home ownership and at the same interest rates as people who can afford to put down a 25 % down payment,» says Pierre Serré, chief financial officer of CMHC.

More people from rural areas of China will move to urban areas, and then we will have a higher level of consumption.

And entrepreneurs interested in launching a rural outsourcing firm should be aware of the challenges that may come with hiring and training employees.

He said many people are under the impression mining is a largely rural and remote industry but much of the traffic in the Port of Vancouver is connected to the mining industry.

When it comes to access, our government launched a $ 500 million program, Connect to Innovate, and it's designed to provide fibre to the institutes in rural and remote communities.

According to Shane Mayes, president of Onshore Technology Services, which operates three centers in Missouri, rural outsourcing allows people to move from «no collar to white collar.

The Michigan State Department of Agriculture and Rural Development found the residue in two product pumps during a routine inspection.

Rural outsourcing is emerging as a trend for big businesses in America — but is it something small business can tap into?

It's by no means a panacea for crippling rural unemployment, if for no other reason than rural outsourcers tend to be very selective employers.

• Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank, priced its Hong Kong IPO slightly lower than expected, Reuters reports.

If the property value is less than $ 40,000 for urban houses, or if a rural house is 2.4 acres or less, you are exempted from these taxes.

He helped straighten out some of my use of English, which I got from growing up in rural Nova Scotia.

Oilpatch candidates like Jim Dinning have never appealed to the other constituencies, and rural nice guy Ed Stelmach was ultimately undone by challenging the oilpatch with his royalty review.

Soon, she noticed that her new home didn't have much in the way of rural garbage collection services.

The spectrum — needed to make cellphone networks operate — is considered valuable because of its ability to penetrate elevators and underground parking lots in big cities and to travel longer distances in rural areas.

The bank, which is the fifth - largest rural commercial bank by assets in China, priced at HK$ 5.10 a share after quoting HK$ 4.99 - HK $ 5.27, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

While safeguarding the bottom - line for the prevention of financial risks, China will step up credit support for weak links in the economy, including small firms and the rural sector.

But it's going to be harder to successfully wipe out the disease in certain rural parts of Nigeria or in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Qwest has a 14 - state region dominated by rural areas, and the company has been in turmoil for several years following allegations about stock sales and financial results.

Jonathan Jackson, founder of Dimagi Dimagi is a technology company that helps organizations deliver health care to urban and rural communities around the world by designing health - information systems and mobile technologies.

They also plan and direct policies and programs to promote industrial and commercial business development in urban and rural areas.

Cedar: I hope by this time next year, our customers will see us at their trusted source to cook, charge and light their way, whether in a rural village in India or a backpacking trip in Yosemite.

It is already backing projects with leading manufacturers in Kentucky and rural Texas.

In 1995, when Father Bernard McCoy moved in to the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in rural Sparta, Wis., he had much more to do than pray for nearly five hours a day: He needed to figure out how to earn enough money to keep the abbey going.

Our organizations built the Rural Transport Network to provide local health - care workers with the motorbikes they needed to travel the distances required: more than 30 riders are currently delivering supplies, care and advice to remote locations in Kenya.

Beijing hasn't quite gotten around to building decent infrastructure to connect the rural areas to the coast.

And instead of asking for a job, she solved the mystery of garbage collection in a rural Texas county.

A spokesman for Cable.co.uk said the easiest way for the UK to climb the rankings is to get broadband to rural households with very low speeds, and also roll out «fibre to the home» (FTTH) broadband networks.

Virgin Unite, our non-profit foundation, has partnered with the international development charity Christian Aid since 2009 to bring health care to remote rural communities in Kenya.

He hoped to make Singapore the commercial capital of a larger, mainly rural country.

For Wal - Mart, which dominates rural America, the overlap is even smaller.

(Full disclosure: I may be another white male in his 60s, but I am also gay and from rural America.)

He set many works in the rural north of his native Michigan, including the detective novels «The Great Leader» and «The Big Seven,» and used Nebraska as the backdrop for one of his most acclaimed works, «Dalva.»

The service could be especially useful for those living in rural areas where broadband access is currently limited and allegedly can provide «fiber - like speeds.»

The viewer of our digital content is younger and more affluent and spends more time with the content than our older, less affluent more rural viewer of our magazine.»

In her role in Washington, D.C., Canales was in charge of managing rural lending programs for small businesses.

But whether you armed them with an Etch A Sketch or subjected them to rural retreats, the overall environment needed to be one of blanket acceptance: All ideas are worthy.

Aquila will be responsible for beaming Internet signals back to rural areas on Earth that lack the kind of communications infrastructure needed to maintain Internet connectivity.