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Down Yonder: Energy Cooperatives and Covid-19, Dakota Access Pipeline, SCOTUS and Oklahoma, Postal Banking
Welcome to Down Yonder – our weekly roundup of good reads we’ve found around the web. Our goal is to showcase more perspectives on national and global issues through a rural lens. Expect Down Yonder on Saturdays. Enjoy! Reuters: Coronavirus ‘Collateral Damage’ Hits U.S. Rural Power Providers Electric cooperatives, which serve about 42 million rural […]
Tribes Say They Have Waited Months for Covid-19 Crisis Funds to Arrive
PHOENIX – At a time when some Native American communities continue to struggle with the most basic needs, tribal leaders Wednesday called it “an outrage” that tribes had to wait months for coronavirus relief funds. Congress approved the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act in March and set aside $8 billion for […]
Inmate-Made Masks Help Community and Those Incarcerated, Jailer Says
The mask-making program at the Woodford County Detention Center is helping both the region and the jail population, according to jailer Michele Rankin. Like many jails, some inmates can work at jobs like picking up litter. The program saves thousands of dollars in labor costs each year for Versailles, the county seat of Woodford County, […]
In Migrant Worker Camps, Wifi Is a Basic Utility
During the Covid-19 pandemic, an agricultural community comes together to expand wifi access in migrant farmworker camps.
Modest Growth in Nonmetro Population in Last Decade Masks Larger Geographic Shifts
This article first appeared in the July 2020 edition of Amber Waves, published by the Economic Research Service of USDA. Natural change—fewer births, more deaths, and an aging population—is creating a major demographic challenge for many regions across rural and small-town America, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) research. But nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas that […]
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