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The grants will help internet companies get high-speed connectivity to rural homes and businesses.
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An estimated 27% of all rural children would benefit from the proposed expansion, compared to 22% in metropolitan areas, according to Center on Budget and Policy Priorities data.
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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.
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The DNR encourages landowners to reforest their properties with hardy seedling bundles. Stock includes flowering trees and conifers.
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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.
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The IRRR will use the funding to expand the current MARTI pilot — a free on-demand automated micro-transit service in Grand Rapids — to make transit services more reliant, convenient and accessible in rural communities, including for wheelchair users.
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The Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation is a state agency located in Eveleth. The economic development agency reinvests local taconite production taxes into northeastern Minnesota businesses and communities.
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Even as Democrats coalesce around a series of tax cuts and credits, the child care credit is one of a few significant differences the House and Senate will need to reconcile. It’s also one of few major DFL tax plans to benefit middle class residents.
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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.
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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.