The greatest historic progress on rural poverty followed large-scale federal intervention via Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
A new federal antipoverty program — which urban communities also need — could go a long way to improving rural quality of life. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act targeted many of these issues. But urban communities'recovery from the Great Recession than rural ones shows that this program neglected key rural challenges.
Some of these steps will also require Congress's involvement. So the question is, will federal leadership take the bold steps necessary to address rural marginalization and start mending these divisions? Or will it pay lip service to those steps while continuing the patterns of neglect and exploitation that have gotten the US to where it is today: facing an untenable stalemate shaped by inequality and mutual distrust.
I pray that Biden administration will help rural and urban Americans too!🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fifteen small rural states with 38 million people combined routinely elect 30 GOP senators; California, with 40 million residents, is represented by two Democrats. This imbalance is getting worse rapidly.