Sentences with phrase «rural residents lack»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 access.

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.

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.