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Rural Poverty

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Sunday, 20 July 2008

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Rural Americans make up one-fifth of the US population but are spread across four-fifths of the land area. The USDA reports that 14.2% of rural Americans live in poverty and 13.1% of rural Americans experience hunger and food insecurity.

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redstarfist

|2008-07-21 04:39:56

"We won't be happy until the American recovery stretches across this country
like a blanket with the midwest safe and warm inside."

Ronald Reagan in a
1984 campaign speech

Fresno Al

|2008-07-21 06:24:19

...and to ensure that warmth and comfort was restored right across the country
Mr reagan speedilly embarked upon ....the Star Wars missile defence iniative...

Anon	\|2008-07-21 06:27:52

The measure of a nation can be found through enquiring how much it values those
who toil the land to feed it.

redstarfist - hidden from the interstate

|2008-07-21 14:27:25

and here's a quote from a priest in rural Iowa:
"After God and country and
neighbors desert you, what's left"?

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