Sentences with phrase «rural residents»

A direct home loan is for rural residents with «low» or «very low» incomes.

The welfare of hundreds of millions of rural residents isn't yet assured.

Many rural residents either do not benefit directly from development or do so at great cost to their health.

Of the world's 1 million to 2 million malaria - related deaths each year, the majority occur among rural residents of the tropics living on less than a dollar a day.

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

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

Most rural residents lived in large villages in the north.

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

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

It's time that we join efforts to stop this assault on rural residents around the globe who have had enough of being sold out by their governments to the wind industry.

With good jobs scarce and few financing options available, it hasn't been easy for rural residents to improve their housing condition.

Among rural residents, forty - four percent said they feel safe using a cell phone on a rural highway versus fourteen percent who feel safe using a cell phone on an urban freeway.

Funded by the Agriculture Department, these low - rate loans are available to low - income rural residents who own and occupy a home in need of repairs.

The Rural Housing Repair and Rehabilitation Loan program, funded by the Agriculture Department, offers low - rate loans to low - income rural residents who own and occupy a home in need of repairs.

Urban dwellers are nearly twice as likely as rural residents to assert that their pets have special nutrition needs (45 percent versus 24 percent) and they are even more likely to be concerned about their pets having food allergies or intolerances (51 percent versus 22 percent).

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that city slickers in Denver have different insurance needs from rural residents from La Junta, or high rollers in Aspen.

Suburban Canadians drive farther and more often than do rural 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.

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.

Another rural reward for those living in Kansas is a loan forgiveness and repayment program focused on attracting new rural residents.

As The Times reported just before the holidays, businesses are springing up around the handful of solar panels purchased by residents in such areas, which allow rural residents to avoid costly trips to town to charge cell phones at usurious rates, and allow kids to improve grades by studying at night.

Other rural residents received cash to perform conservation activities, and the country was able to reforest nearly 27 million hectares of former farmland and deforested areas.

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.

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.

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.

• Women over men • Adults over teenagers • Rural residents over urban residents • Parents and those who are married over most single drivers

Taking advantage of less - restrictive regulations, it's spent months testing its drones and from Friday — the same day as China's annual 24 - hour online shopathon — it intends to start operating four routes delivering packages to rural residents on a trial basis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The target group for the Transit Service consistS of income eligible rural residents who do not have access to private automobiles, as well as the elderly and disabled.

[50] Concern over seeing rural residents left as minorities in districts focused overwhelmingly on urban issues prompted another Democratic lawmaker, Joe Aull, to propose a slight change to Casey's plan to keep rural voters together.

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.

«Most often international migration is not an option and rural residents migrate to urban areas, contributing to urbanization and urban poverty in developing countries,» says sociologist Elizabeth Fussell of Washington State University.

Pathogens isolated from sick patients mirrored this trend: People from urban areas were most often infected with the most virulent type of bacteria, whereas rural residents were usually infected with less harmful Leptospira species.

«By enhancing mobility and increasing access to employment, these unsung heroes of transportation have done an exceptional job of connecting rural residents to ladders of opportunity.»

FTA has provided approximately $ 50 million in FY2013 and FY2014 formula funds to 110 tribal transit programs in 26 states to help tribes continue to provide and enhance the transit services that many rural residents depend on every day.

Rural residents went to libraries more than city residents, even though in general they had to travel farther to get to those libraries.

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

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

We also surveyed TNR colony caretakers in Avalon and Two Harbors and interior rural residents to estimate the number of colony and feral cats that were dependent on human foods.

«The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun» aligns the life of post-soviet rural residents and the futurological projects of Russian cosmism to emphasize that the goal of the early Soviet breakthroughs aimed at the conquest of outer space was not so much technical acceleration, but the common cause of humankind in their struggle against limitations of earthly life.

Traditional Mountaintop Cisterns Sabrina Faber, a longtime resident of Yemen, noticed while trekking in the countryside that rural residents still employed a traditional way of coping with the country's frequent water shortages: collecting rainwater on mountaintop cisterns.

Well, this article had me nodding in agreement for the first half of it, until they got to the «main» reason rural residents oppose wind farms, which is supposedly because there's no monetary benefit in it for them.

I'm using $ 50 as the base amount because people in condos probably don't pay that much, while rural residents pay $ 75 and in many cases upwards of $ 100 per month.