Sentences with phrase «rural residents in»

(Rural residents in this calculation require more calories to offset their daily activities.)
Well - intended medical programs that work in cities and suburbs do not easily reach rural residents in our geographically vast district.

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The divide between Virginians living in the northern suburbs and the state's rural residents has resulted in an divisive, toxic political atmosphere.
But while we certainly haven't solved every issue facing urban residents, there is an urgency and energy toward improving economic opportunity in cities that is lacking in the discussion about rural communities.
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.
The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development offers a program in rural West Virginia communities that helps residents obtain houRural Development offers a program in rural West Virginia communities that helps residents obtain hourural West Virginia communities that helps residents obtain housing.
Chinese citizens receive an urban or rural hukou which officially identifies them as residents of a specific area and which allows them to live and work only in that area.
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.
The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development offers a program in rural Ohio communities which helps residents secure houRural Development offers a program in rural Ohio communities which helps residents secure hourural Ohio communities which helps residents secure housing.
Loans and grants are offered to residents who are buying new homes (or repairing current homes) in rural areas.
After Jaime highlighted loss of health care access by rural Pacific County residents, Premera announces new contract for health care coverage in Astoria
Down in the Valley: Financial Neglect in Rural California (June 2013) The most powerful banks in California and the nation are failing to meet the financial services and credit needs of residents and businesses in the San Joaquin Valley.
The USDA offers programs in rural communities to help residents secure affordable new homes or repair their current homes.
The United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development offers a program in Maine that helps residents in rural communities secure safe and affordable houRural Development offers a program in Maine that helps residents in rural communities secure safe and affordable hourural communities secure safe and affordable housing.
And the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development offers a program in rural Minnesota communities to help residents secure affordable houRural Development offers a program in rural Minnesota communities to help residents secure affordable hourural Minnesota communities to help residents secure affordable housing.
More than 85 per cent of these poverty victims are rural residents, whose sole hope lies in the development of widespread subsistence farming.
In the 1990s the residents of this rural portion of Gwinnett County found themselves firmly in the path of Atlanta's metropolitan growtIn the 1990s the residents of this rural portion of Gwinnett County found themselves firmly in the path of Atlanta's metropolitan growtin the path of Atlanta's metropolitan growth.
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 accesIn 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 accesin four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks accesin Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.
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.
These awards will transform the way men and women do business, while helping educate our youngest residents in the most rural parts of the state.
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.
The Benue State government has banned public processions following Wednesday uproar when residents in Makurdi took to the streets to express their grievances over incessant killing of people in the rural areas by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Gieseke, a resident of Brighton Township in rural Nicollet County, is married and has three young children.
A majority of the residents who addressed the Lancaster Town Board trustees lived on Peppermint Road, a rural neighborhood in northeastern Lancaster that is home to horse barns,...
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.
A fairly small crowd showed up to hear what the budget would do to programs like cleaning up the Great Lakes and bus service in rural areas to help county residents move around.
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.
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.
The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.
The economic tendency of immigrants to work in large urban areas is one of the main reasons that large urban areas have much more religious diversity, and many more residents who are neither WASP nor African - American, than rural areas.
Enck, however, has repeatedly insisted EPA officials were clear in their warnings to state officials last year before the Cuomo administration moved to declare the area a state Superfund site and advised residents to not drink the water in the rural village.
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 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 rural resident's life.
Residents of Ewusiejo, a rural community in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region, are reeling under the negative effects of illegal mining upstream.
Its goal is to make sure residents in the underserved urban and rural parts of the state can access the internet at 25 Mbps and eventually expand that to 100 Mbps by providing state matching grants to broadband service providers.
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.
For residents without their own vehicles transportation can be a big issue, especially for those living in our rural areas.
«It is government's role to provide the services that the private sector either can't or won't do, and I am proud to say that my administration has worked to strengthen public health though the Health Mall and other related initiatives and has also been instrumental in keeping residents connected to needed services through programs such as the Rural Transit Service.
WHEREAS, Farms also provide jobs, use less in services than they pay in property taxes, maintain wildlife habitat and water quality when well - managed, create beautiful scenic vistas, highlight the cultural heritage of many rural areas in the County, and offer fresh, local food to County residents;
Erie County government also provides critical budgetary support to Rural Transit Services, which identifies and serves the community transportation needs of senior citizens, disabled individuals and low - to - moderate income residents in rural Erie County communiRural Transit Services, which identifies and serves the community transportation needs of senior citizens, disabled individuals and low - to - moderate income residents in rural Erie County communirural Erie County communities.
The project site is in a rural residential area with access to a handicap accessible van transportation service for residents provided through Cayuga County.
Maloney is a New York City resident, but he and his partner, Randy Florke, have owned property in Sullivan County since the mid-1990s and Florke's real estate business, The Rural Connection, is based there.
A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.
The Legislature approved $ 7,500 at today's annual Budget Meeting to support the center's efforts to combat rural poverty and help residents in need of various services.
This volunteer - based organization serves vulnerable residents who live in rural communities and will benefit greatly from the additional funding.
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.
Of the 21 counties in the state's most rural regions (the Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley and North County), only four have had a net gain of residents in the past four years, according to the census bureau.
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.
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