Sentences with phrase «rural population centers»

$ 4.8 million will go toward the Southern Tier Community Revitalization Project to finance the private sector redevelopment of key buildings, the infill of new buildings and the development of the region's downtowns, neighborhoods and rural population centers.

Not exact matches

These population centers often lean one way while rural parts of the same state lean the other.

What was once considered a rural area might now be a significant population center.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Compounding the problem is the fact that the most desirable hunting areas — rural acreage near population centers — are most affected by the trend toward posting.

Orphanages are located in urban centers; orphans and abandoned children in rural areas (who account for around 85 % of the total orphan population) do not have access to these state - run institutions.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

Eventually Cuomo gave up his pledge to veto any district lines that were gerrymandered and agreed to new lines that drastically favored Senate Republicans, even creating a 63rd district upstate that suspiciously carved its way around major population centers and incorporated rural towns populated by more voters who were more likely Republican.

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

More than half the world population now lives in cities, many migrating to urban centers from rural hinterlands, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute is central Pennsylvania's only comprehensive cancer center, with a special research emphasis on cancer - producing behaviors that are more prevalent among an underserved rural population.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

Her most recent projects include bringing maker - centered learning experiences to underrepresented populations and rural areas in her mobile studio for creating and making named EMMA (E) veryone (M) ay (M) ake (A) nywhere.

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

Other less rural areas outside of major population centers with a serious lack of mortgage credit may qualify with populations between 10,000 - 20,000 residents.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

And this is just the beginning: with massive wind projects under development across its northern and eastern provinces, and 19 ultra-high-voltage transmission projects connecting windy rural areas to population centers (all to be completed by 2014), more milestones lie ahead in China.

Although highways in Oklahoma may be wide and open in rural parts of the state, commercial trucks that pass through or near population centers like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and the surrounding suburban areas can encounter significant traffic.

As we go out of the population centers and into the smaller towns and rural areas, law firms tend to have more specific needs, and an in - depth understanding of the local market dynamics is essential.

Born out of the Monroe and North Brunswick townships on February 28, 1860, East Brunswick grew from a rural farming community to become New Jersey's center of population according to the 2000 Census.

Inhabitants are packed tightly around major population centers but are also spread very sparsely through forested and rural areas.

After completing a dental assisting program in Rochester, New York, she began her career first in a small general practice, then moved to a rural health center in Vermont, caring largely for underserved populations, a position that she loved.

Jobs for Alaska administrative medical assistants will be concentrated in and around population centers like Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Nome, although some assistants work in «hubs» that have been organized in a way that brings medical services to the widespread rural areas of the state.

Community Health Centers are not - for - profit providers of health care to over 25 million people, including health centers serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers, homeless and other special populations in urban and rural, public housing and school based settings.

In particular, Planned Parenthood helps the Komen Foundation reach vulnerable populations — low - income women, African - American women, and Latinas — especially in rural areas and underserved communities where Planned Parenthood health centers are their only source of health care.

Peak Wellness Center, a community mental health care facility, serves a rural population while also facing a severe workforce shortage.