“Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.” PeopleGivingSelfOpportunityAreasSelf ConfidenceSelf RespectUrbanSlumsRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Bunker Roy
“Those living in rural areas as well as those with a planning policy remit for those areas have an important responsibility to protect green belt agricultural land for the wider benefit of feeding the UK into the uncertain future that we all face” WellsImportantFacesResponsibilityLandPolicyProtectBenefitsAreasGreenPlanningUncertainFeedingBeltsRural AreasUncertain FutureResponsibility To Protect Author:Phil Harding
“Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities” ImportantCommunityQualityEconomicDevelopmentAreasLocalsUrbanImprovingAirportsQuality Of LifeStrengtheningEconomic DevelopmentIowaRural Areas Author:Chuck Grassley
“Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.” ShouldSocialEducationQualityBreakRichEconomicSecurityDrugOffersTaxesBenefitsAreasProgramAddDefenseShoreAssistanceSocial SecurityPrescriptionsMedicareSurplusPublic EducationPrescription DrugsTax BreaksRural Areas Author:Bennie Thompson
“I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.” CountryLevelsPovertyChildhoodHighestAreasForgottenLondonMilesDisgustingTeenageRural Areas Author:Roger Daltrey
“In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and the mugger come out of the anonymous dark, their faces unrecognized, their motives obscure.” KnowsFacesDarkCitiesCrimeMarriedAreasVictimMajorityViolentMotiveKillersObscureViolent CrimesRural AreasMuggers Book:Soft City: Picador Classic Source: Soft City: Picador Classic
“Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.” HurtPayCompanyAreasProgramFarmsFarmersReductionSalesmanFertilizerTractorsRural Areas Author:Dick Armey
“I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.” CountryWaterCommunityEssentialsAreasCleanDrinkingSouthNineSovereignTribesInfrastructureDrinking WaterDakotaRural AreasSouth DakotaClean Drinking Water Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin