Understanding and acknowledging the range of challenges for rural America makes it easier for our urban and suburban friends and sometimes distant neighbors to find shared values and ambitions with rural Americans. The trend seems to be to focus on the things that divide Americans based on where we live. Neglected in that conversation are […]
Posted on July 1st, 2019 by Rural Outlook
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We reject the click-bait driven misconception about a widening urban-rural political gap in America. It is a fact that most progressive voters live in big cities and suburbs closest to large urban areas. It is also a fact that progressive strategies are aimed at the largest clusters of Democratic voters. Because of those two factors […]
Posted on June 4th, 2019 by Rural Outlook
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The Green New Deal is a middle class jobs and small business framework designed to help grow the Rural Economy with jobs and business opportunities that fit our small towns and wide open counties. At the moment GND is the umbrella concept for a series of proposals that incorporate good wages in a sustainable economy […]
Posted on February 11th, 2019 by Rural Outlook
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We are finally in the midst of at least a temporary break from the costly Trump Shutdown, but all indications are that many of Trump’s enablers in the Senate are giving him the green light to shut down the government again on Feb. 15. The majority of Americans oppose the Trump shutdown tactic, are against […]
Posted on January 31st, 2019 by Rural Outlook
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The Trump administration’s decision to cozy up with Saudi Arabia is putting American jobs and revenue from the fossil fuels industry at risk, already coming close to forcing oil rigs to go offline and requiring companies to lay off workers. From the conventional oil operations that states like Mississippi totally depend on to the hydraulic […]
Posted on November 24th, 2018 by Rural Outlook
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Trust is the cornerstone of the compact voters make with the candidates they support. Voters expect their candidates to keep their word and fight for the issues and programs that they pledge to support. In the special election for the 18th congressional district in Pennsylvania, Republican Rick Saccone claims he won’t cut our Social Security […]
Posted on March 9th, 2018 by Rural Outlook
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Are you ready for private toll roads and bridges in West Virginia and Maine? How about state and local tax hikes in Mississippi and New Hampshire? Get ready for it, because that is exactly what Rural States from Georgia to Idaho can expect if the Trump infrastructure plan comes to fruition. Oh, the White House […]
Posted on February 3rd, 2018 by Rural Outlook
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The State of Rural America is strong because of the people and local institutions that allow us to sustain our vital agrarian-based communities. The strength of Rural America can be found in our profound and productive ability to feed the world. The State of Rural America is threatened, however, by the false promises from current […]
Posted on January 30th, 2018 by Rural Outlook
Filed under: A Better Deal, Agriculture, Economy, Election 2018, Environment, Politics and Political Issues, Rural Issues, Telecommunications, Trumpcare, Voter ID laws | No Comments »
For too long the ruling party in Alabama has ignored the opioid crisis that is literally killing Rural Alabamians. Unless there is a political shake up, Alabama will likely remain atop the list of states with the worst opioid problem in the country. Republicans like Roy Moore are the problem, refusing to see that Big […]
Posted on December 9th, 2017 by Rural Outlook
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Alabama has the Republican leadership to thank for the state losing out on $14.4 billion in federal money that is available by law to provide mostly Rural American residents with health insurance coverage. The number of Alabamians denied affordable healthcare is approaching half a million people. Now we’ve learned Republican have plans next year to […]
Posted on December 8th, 2017 by Rural Outlook
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