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USDA Resource makes it easier to access data on rural development funded projects in rural communities

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today unveiled the Lender Lens on the ...
Agri-Pulse

USDA rural programs lose staff, endangering delivery of services

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...
The Star

Five people-oriented key tenets to drive rural development goals

PUTRAJAYA: The Rural and Regional Development Ministry has identified five key focus areas as the foundation for the planning and implementation of rural development programmes to ensure sustainable, ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

Former Rep. Cabell is new rural director for Pennsylvania

Former State Rep. Michael Cabell of Butler Twp. is the new director of Rural Development for Pennsylvania, a federal agency that in the past 12 years provided $10.6 billion to the state for home loans ...
ssir.org

CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...