Tony Pipa: 'Shamokin is a cautionary tale for what happens when we lack policy solutions that can truly help places cope and adapt to major economic and social shifts.'
. That’s compared with 18 percent of rural whites. Anyone serious about racial equity must also be serious about rural America.federal support through the state to turn 8,000 acres of formerly mined land into an outdoor recreation destination and conservation site.
We have seen the seeds of a new rural policy to reinvigorate rural America. The bipartisan consensus that resulted inin the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to address the lack of strong and stable internet service in large swaths of rural America is an example. But much of the other investment available in that law is at risk of bypassing most rural places, given their constraints and inexperience at navigating the federal bureaucracy.
Policymakers are starting to recognize the need to support lagging places better. An experiment such as the recent Build Back Better Regional Challenge, run by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, offers one template. This $1 billion grant competition is supporting 21 regional partnerships with substantial multiyear investments to give them a good opportunity to transform their local economies; a couple of them are predominantly rural.
Rural policy is one issue where Republicans and Democrats should be able to find common ground to work together. The new Congress will present a concrete opportunity as it takes up work to pass a new Farm Bill in 2023, a major piece of legislation renewed roughly every five years that — among other things — authorizes rural development programs at the Department of Agriculture.
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