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New Study underscores GOP’s Phony Interest in Rural Voters (August, 2021) - Having long painted Democrats as uncaring about rural and small town folks, every Republican in congress voted against the Child Tax Credit, which a new study calculates will bring $658 per household in the Virginia’s rural 5th congressional district. Furthermore, the study found that by focusing more on the poor and middle class, the program’s positive economic impact will be far higher in non-metro regions. As a result, it estimates that the economies of non-urban regions will get a 53% bigger bump than their urban counterparts from the overall program and an additional 38% increase from the recently expanded funding. Also read Washington Post opinion piece on this issue. Rural Covid-19 Cases Surge Sevenfold in Last Month (August 12, 2021) - The Daily Yonder weighs in with an article about “The surge caused by the Delta variant has spread from a handful of states in the southern Midwest to encompass two-thirds of all rural counties in the U.S.” Census: Rural America shrinks as people flock to big cities (August 12, 2021) -The number of Americans who live in rural areas continued to shrink in the last decade while the nation’s largest cities grew substantially, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Justice Amy Coney Barrett denies request to block Indiana University's vaccine mandate (August 12, 2021) - Justice Amy Coney Barrett declined a request to block Indiana University's vaccine mandate, signaling that similar policies going into effect amid a Covid-19 surge could pass legal muster. “We're in trouble”: Rural America can't escape the Delta variant (August 8, 2021) - POLITICO reports on how Senior Biden health officials have for weeks worried internally about the low vaccine uptake in rural, conservative counties across the country.
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