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Rural Whites Shielded From Medicaid Work Requirement Rules

May 22, 2018 Ilana Novick, Truthdig.com Educate! Medicaid, Racism, Rural

In April, President Trump signed an executive order allowing some Medicaid recipients to be exempted from requirements that they find jobs or lose their health insurance. Now, the states taking advantage of the order, called “Reducing Poverty in America,” are facing scrutiny for allegedly creating policies that, as Talking Points Memo (TMP) reports, “would in practice shield many rural, white residents from the impact of the new rules.” Kentucky and Ohio are applying for the waivers that the executive order allows. Each of their proposals include exemptions for the counties with the highest unemployment, which happen to be mostly white, GOP-voting and rural. In contrast, according to TMP, “many low-income people of color who live in high-unemployment urban centers would not qualify...

Co-Op Broadband Brightens Future Of Rural Alabama

May 9, 2018 Cathy Cash, Electric.coop Create! Alabama, Internet, New Economy, Rural

The future of tiny Brilliant, Alabama, just got brighter with a clear path to broadband. Thanks to Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, state leadership and funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, residents of a rural community beset by persistent poverty will soon have the fastest internet service available. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Thursday presented a $2.98 million grant to Steve Foshee, president and CEO of the electric co-op and its broadband subsidiary, Tombigbee Communications, in an event crowded with elected officials and residents in Hamilton, Alabama. “To compete in today’s global marketplace, we must remove the infrastructure gaps in rural communities,” said Perdue, who lauded Tombigbee’s participation in the USDA grant program and encouraged others to follow.

Net Neutrality Is Vital – So Is Rural Broadband

April 28, 2018 Neil Ritchie, Anchorage Daily News. Create! Internet, Net Neutrality, Rural

Most issues look different from rural America, but that's especially true of net neutrality. No one doubts that net neutrality policies to keep the internet open and free for all users is vital. No internet provider or tech company should be allowed to block websites, censor or discriminate against viewpoints, manipulate cyberspace to shut out competition or otherwise interfere with our online experience. But for many activists and tech advocates in high-connectivity urban areas, that's all that net neutrality means. In rural America, however, effective net neutrality means much more.

The Broadband Boost Small-Town America Needs

April 16, 2018 By Alex Marshall, Governing.com Create! Internet, Public Services, Rural

They are mostly towns you’ve probably never heard of, places like Sandy, Ore., Leverett, Mass., Lafayette, La., and Longmont, Colo. Yet these smaller communities, and hundreds more like them, have something even the techiest big cities such as New York, San Francisco and Seattle don’t have: widespread, fast and well-priced broadband service. Big cities usually have the edge in the traditional drivers of economic development. They have the universities, the sports teams, the big airports, the interstate highway access, the ports. But in arguably the most forward-looking part of the economy, some smaller localities have the edge. They made it for themselves by developing their own broadband networks, typically employing the latest fiber-optic technology. “I believe over the next three to five years people are no longer going to be surprised that some small cities have much better internet access than big cities,” ...

Growing Problems With Rural Healthcare Exchanges

January 9, 2018 By Megan Stanley, Peoplespolicyproject.org Educate! Health Care, Rural

The variability of enrollment and coverage options in statewide health insurance marketplaces has been a long-standing challenge with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Rural areas, which are often areas with a low number of insurers, have an especially hard time enrolling individuals in healthcare plans through the ACA. The recent repeal of the individual mandate will make enrollment efforts even harder, while driving up premiums for those who do opt for coverage through the ACA marketplace. While I understood this basic flaw in the current healthcare policy, it wasn’t until I had a personal experience with the exchanges that I truly saw how unsustainable our current system is. After returning from several months out of the country, my husband and I needed health coverage, so we signed up on healthcare.gov and put in his family’s address in Caroline County — a rural area outside Richmond, Virginia.

Trump’s Rural Voters Fighting To Keep Land From Growing Web Of Pipelines

May 25, 2017 Stuart Leavenworth, www.mcclatchydc.com Resist! Pipelines, Rural

By Stuart Leavenworth for McClatchy - Norm MacQueen would seem to fit the profile of a property owner comfortable with an oil and gas pipeline running through his land. A retired oil refinery employee, MacQueen worked amid risky conditions for more than 20 years, as a pipe fitter and a welder. But early last year, MacQueen learned that an oil company, Sunoco, was planning to install two more pipelines past his family’s home in eastern Pennsylvania, where one already runs. According to MacQueen, Sunoco’s agents told him the company will force his neighbors and him to sell the rights to some of their land – through a process called eminent domain – if they don’t agree to turn it over. “These oil companies have so much power,” fumed MacQueen, standing in his yard on a recent weekday. “They think they can do anything they want.” Eminent domain is often used by governments to gain right-of-way for projects such as highways or government buildings. But state and federal regulators who authorize pipeline projects also typically grant the private companies that are building them the right to use eminent domain to secure needed right-of-way.

‘Class Of ’27’ Shows How Politicians And Mainstream Media Fail Rural America

September 19, 2016 Emma Niles, www.truthdig.com Educate! Mass Media, Politics, Rural

By Emma Niles for Truth Dig - The most provocative political statements often are delivered through artistic expression. This is most certainly the case in “Class of ’27,” a collection of short films revealing the successes and limitations of children’s education in rural communities across the United States. “Class of ’27” premiered Tuesday as part of public media’s “America Reframed” series. The hourlong documentary brings viewers to a remote county in Kentucky, an indigenous community in Minnesota and isolated farms of the Pacific Northwest.

Rural Women In Latin America Define Their Own Kind Of Feminism

April 17, 2015 Fabiana Frayssinet, www.ipsnews.net Create! Argentina, Feminism, Latin America, Rural

Rural organisations in Latin America are working on defining their own concept of feminism, one that takes into account alternative economic models as well as their own concerns and viewpoints, which are not always in line with those of women in urban areas. Gregoria Chávez, an older farmer from the northwest Argentine province of Santiago del Estero, said feminism must include “the struggles and support of our fellow farmers in defending the land.” Until recently, feminism was an alien concept for her. But like so many other women farmers around Latin America, she is now a leader in the battles in her province against the spread of monoculture soy production and the displacement of small farmers. “I think women are important in the countryside because they are braver than men,” she told IPS. “I’m not afraid of anything. I always tell my compañeras that without courage we won’t gain a thing.”

Indigenous Rights Report: 94% Of US Companies Ignore Rural Community Impacts

November 13, 2014 First Peoples Worldwide, www.us6.campaign-archive2.com Educate! Capitalism, First Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Rural

Recent community backlash against the Keystone XL pipeline, Indigenous protests against oil and gas concession auctions in Ecuador and Peru, and violent resource conflicts in Indonesia have all exposed extractive companies’ poor community engagement practices – and companies are doing nothing about it.A recent study from First Peoples Worldwide found that only 6 percent of publicly-held US oil, gas and mining companies utilize adequate risk management tools when working with communities, making people in rural areas increasingly vulnerable to extractive projects’ negative social and environmental impacts, and exposing shareholders to financial loss. According to the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 85% of the world’s poor live in rural areas.

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