A report by the nonprofit Headwaters Economics found that less than 20% of FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities grants went to rural areas.

Late last year, tests conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency revealed the school’s drinking water wells were contaminated with PFAS. As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind.

When calculating who has access to proper broadband, the federal government counts much slower internet speeds compared to Minnesota’s definition. As a result, the cash may be enough to hit federal goals for universal broadband, but not state ones.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently awarded NE CoC and KOOTASCA a $352,280 grant for case management services in International Falls and an increase in apartments in Itasca County.

While rural populations account for 20% of the country’s population, only 11% of the country’s physicians live there. According to the AAMC, three out of five federally designated health professional shortage areas are in rural regions.

The cause is lower revenues from Medicaid and Medicare, rising personnel costs from staffing shortages, and increased demand for services. Michael Topchik, national leader for Chartis, said 43% of rural hospitals are operating in the red.