Sentences with phrase «for rural residents»

For example, it accurately notes that the impact of sawmill closures is devastating for rural residents and local economies but incongruously attributes the shutdowns to «the consequences of border disputes and competition from emerging economies.»

Offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this loan program can be a good choice for rural residents who meet specific eligibility requirements.

Salter said that only two mediation program registries are outside the Lower Mainland, making it difficult for rural residents to access the program's mediation.

Similarly, the Foundation for Rural Service travels to rural communities to offer internet training, help improve community health care access, including telemedicine, and provides grants for computers for rural residents.

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

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

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.

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.

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After Jaime highlighted loss of health care access by rural Pacific County residents, Premera announces new contract for health care coverage in Astoria

The program aims to help develop more rural areas of a state while offering safe, affordable housing for residents.

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.

The program aims to help develop more rural areas of a state while offering affordable housing for residents.

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.

Queensland, meanwhile, takes the national preference for «plain packaging» to another level, with residents in both rural and urban areas being more than twice as likely to opt for supermarket brands as they are for Bega.

The residency programs are located in a small southern university city and provide primary care for residents of the city and the surrounding rural area.

Rice's proposal include creating a 311 line so residents in less - populated regions of the state can get legal help, appointing a deputy attorney general for rural affairs and visiting all 62 counties of the state during her first her in office, if she's elected.

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.

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

«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 possRural Outreach Center, which works on a tight budget to help as many rural residents as possrural residents as possible.

Calls for Plaid Cymru to remove an election candidate after it emerged he wrote that many English - born residents of rural Wales were racist.

A variety of lakefront, resort, village, small city or rural settings are available for future residents.

A variety of affordable transit options such as public transit, taxis, car shares, cycling, and safe pedestrian pathways is critical for residents of Erie County to engage in a wide variety of community activities across urban, suburban, and rural settings.

«This funding will help strengthen the link between rural areas and smaller cities, supporting regional economic growth and increasing ease of access for residents and visitors to our state.»

Lawmakers began funding dozens of different programs with money from HCRA, paying for worker retraining (which pleased health care unions) and rural health grant programs that were good for residents — and lawmakers — in rural districts.

While many residents at Tuesday night's Southold Town Board meeting agreed that having affordable housing for the area's workers and retired population is important, others said they feared how a proposal to increase the number of units allowed in an affordable housing development will change the North Fork's rural character.

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The Rural Development Project of the Year Award went to Lakeview Heights, a supportive housing residence near Seneca Falls that provides 26 apartments for people living with persistent and severe mental illness, and 14 for low - income residents.

The project site is in a rural residential area with access to a handicap accessible van transportation service for residents provided through Cayuga County.

The Erie County Health Mall and regular county funding for Meals on Wheels and Rural Transit Services are a few ways that Erie county government provides for underserved residents every day.

The hearing is being held after a prolonged effort by residents of the rural village to get to the bottom of how the chemical contamination went undetected for so long.

The predominately rural district, he charges, will suffer when funding for parkland that attracts both tourists and new residents slows and if support for public health infrastructure dries up.

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

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.

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

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching the nation's first official obstetrics — gynecology residency program for «very rural» areas, with the first resident slated to be selected next month.

For instance, the Rockefeller Foundation published a highly influential report, «Good Health at Low Cost,» promoting China's patriotic health campaign, Costa Rica's universal health insurance, Sri Lanka's land reform movement and Kerala's rural nurse - midwives as reasons residents of these areas were living better.

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.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

That means the average rural consumer ends up subsidizing power for urban residents by 240 to 510 rupees ($ 4 to $ 8) per year, according to a study in Karnataka state done by Rahul Tongia, a fellow at Brookings India.

Beyond that, the negative impact on soil, coupled with the toxic runoff to water supplies in largely rural impoverished communities causes even more health problems for innocent residents.

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.

Set within a sinister plantation mansion in modern day rural America and taking place after the dramatic events of Resident Evil 6, players experience the terror directly from the first person perspective for the first time in the Resident Evil series.

Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner (Frances McDormand) to offer much - needed relief to the economically hard - hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties.

In Ghana, Acqua for Life expanded from rural communities into urban areas in 2013, installing mechanized boreholes to provide water to residents of the Aboabo slum, in Ghana's second biggest city of Kumasi.

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

Robinson is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on education policy issues including choice in public and private schools, regulatory development and implementation of K - 12 laws, the role of for - profit institutions in education, prison education and reentry, rural education, and the role of community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in adult advancement.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $ 5 million in competitive grant funds to enhance public transit service for American Indians, Alaska natives and other residents on rural tribal lands.

Residents of the rural West, many of the queens Burbick interviewed for the book are skilled ranchhands who were raised on horseback, capable of breaking horses and branding beeves women who have witnessed the waning of farm life.

Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library — Hoopa, CA Year: 2007 Amount: $ 10,000 Grant: National Award for Library Service As California's only joint county - tribal library on an Indian reservation, the Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library has become a center for the rural community of Hoopa Valley, connecting thousands of residents of all ages with Native American reading materials, computer access and the prospect of a better life through literacy.

Some secrets are too terrible to reveal... Some crimes are too unspeakable to solve... In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and «English» residents have lived side by side for two centuries.