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How 80 Years of Rural Electrification Will Help Bring Broadband to Rural America
We’re celebrating the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Rural Electrification Administration this month. The REA was created because in 1935, rural areas had no electricity—no lights or power to...
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Food Insecurity in U.S. Households Essentially Unchanged from 2013, but Down...
The Economic Research Service has released Household Food Security in the United States in 2014. ERS has also conducted recent research on the impact of economic conditions and policies on the...
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USDA Investments Make Big Impact in Rural America
USDA Rural Development 2015 Progress Report. USDA Rural Development’s just released 2015 Progress Report highlights the many ways that the Agency’s investments in businesses and communities created...
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2,700 Miles of Fiber
The Recovery Act helped bring access to broadband to 6 million rural Americans. Sometimes one connection at a time. In 2010, Scott County, Tennessee languished at a twenty-one percent unemployment...
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What I Would Have Said Today to Vice President Biden about the Recovery Act
Secretary Vilsack meets with construction workers in Berlin, Maryland. The town was able to build a new water treatment plant with funds made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
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Broadband Access in South Texas
Valley Telephone Cooperative of Raymondville, Texas uses a high-speed fiberoptic distribution network to provide up to 50mbps service to its customers in south Texas thanks to support through the...
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Gigabit Comes to Rural Western North Carolina
New routing switches are installed to support Country Cablevision's expanded broadband service in rural North Carolina. At the foot of Mount Mitchell, highest peak east of the Mississippi River, sits...
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Fighting Crime with Fiber Optics
At the Oneida Police Department, Patrolman Josh Kennedy uses the online systems to access instant data on wanted fugitives and other criminals. Near Stearns, Kentucky, a state trooper monitored...
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Hog Wild Over Broadband
A group of hogs. Photo courtesy: USDA, Lance Cheung, Photographer Bringing broadband to rural areas is helping transform business operations, including family-owned hog farms. Ralls County Electric...
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From Recovery to Renewal: Rural America’s Partner for Prosperity
Secretary Vilsack swore me in to be the Under Secretary for Rural Development (RD), and I'm so proud of the work we've accomplished. Eight years ago this month, the US economy went into free fall. The...
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