Rural in sentence

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It's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both.

Bertie County is kind of a prime example in the demise of rural America.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

Perhaps the biggest thing it struggles with, like many communities similar to it, is that there's no shared, collective investment in the future of rural communities.

Only 6.8 percent of all our philanthropic giving in the U.S. right now benefits rural communities, and yet 20 percent of our population lives there.

So Bertie County is not only very rural; it's incredibly poor.

We had fallen in love with the place and the people and the work that we're able to do in a rural place like Bertie County, that, as designers and builders, you can't do everywhere.

And I should say that these are three things that we've done in Bertie County, but I feel pretty confident that they could work in a lot of other rural communities around the U.S. and maybe even beyond.

So in many cases this is not so much about making change as it is creating the conditions under which change is possible and the incentive to want to make change, which is easier said than done in rural communities and in inside-the-box education systems in rural communities.

So while this is a very small story, we hope that it represents a step in the right direction for the future of rural communities and for the future of public education and hopefully also for the future of design.

Right about the time that the Internet gets going as an educational tool, I take off from Wisconsin and move to Kansas, small town Kansas, where I had an opportunity to teach in a lovely, small-town, rural Kansas school district, where I was teaching my favorite subject, American government.

Humanitarian organizations mostly focused on the formal settlement in rural areas, and there was nothing in place for us.

Part of my work now is really laying the groundwork to integrate urban ag and rural food systems to hasten the demise of the 3,000-mile salad by creating a national brand of urban-grown produce in every city, that uses regional growing power and augments it with indoor growing facilities, owned and operated by small growers, where now there are only consumers.

It's not a competition with rural farm; it's actually reinforcements.

Then I hear about Thardeep Rural Development Program, a non-profit organization working to empower rural communities.

So when I was growing up in a really rural area in Maine, the Internet meant something very different to me.

And they provide needed economic support for rural communities.

So I give you this wonderful, informative image of the sky, ranging from the inner city, where you may see one or two stars and nothing else, all the way to the rural environments, where you can enjoy this great and gorgeous and beautiful performance of the constellations and the stars.

It's going to depend whether they're inner-city or rural.

And she told me, she said, "You know, I grew up in Southwestern Virginia, in the coal mines and the farmlands of rural Virginia, and this table was in my grandfather's kitchen.

It happened a lot, though, because my family had desegregated a white community in rural Virginia.

This will really leverage technology to the rural and the underserved and enable what used to be thousand-dollar tests to be done for pennies, and at the point of care.

The first surgeon in my country came from that rural village.

You find it in indigenous communities, in rural communities.

I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.

You know, one of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural.

There are also financial reforms in rural China.

There is also a rural entrepreneurial revolution in China.

Most people in rural North America owned some land by 1900.

They find themselves sort of sandwiched between the urban areas and the rural areas.

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