Buckets of Opportunity

The Rural Assembly’s coordinator Whitney Kimball Coe was published in New America this week in the piece “Buckets of Opportunity in Rural America.”

In the article, Coe talked about the recent Big Ideas Forum and the current plight of rural America.

“It’s more critical than ever to keep rural places in the nation’s consciousness, not because of the rural vote in the 2016 election, but because the futures of the city and the countryside are intertwined. Rural health and prosperity is essential for all of us,” she says.

Read the full piece here.

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