The convenience brought its products to America's most rural locations.
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"Most rural areas are not that successful yet," he said.
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Most rural families combine livestock and crop farming on small plots.
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Texas also has the most rural hospitals closures of any state.
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Most rural Africans light their homes at night with kerosene lamps.
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The area I represented in Congress is the most rural in America.
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Unfortunately, many of our most rural communities do not share that experience.
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But most rural Republicans aren't farmers, and many are Fox News devotees.
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Perhaps the polls missed less educated voters in the most rural areas.
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Politicians representing the most rural voters would likely push to go ahead.
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That blank spot is Gascony, one of the country's most rural regions.
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Many of the most rural districts that flipped — seats now held by Reps.
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The U.S. Census Bureau says Maine is the most rural state in America.
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Ms. Sprouse teaches pre-kindergarten in one of New York State's most rural regions.
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But their establishment is different - boasting a better power supply than most rural classrooms.
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Sanchez has said that mail service is also spotty in the most rural areas.
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Most rural youngsters leave school at 15, whereas a third of urban ones gain degrees.
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Urban unrest has reshaped Sunday's elections even in the most rural parts of the territory.
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That blank spot is Gascony, one of the most rural regions in all of France.
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Jared Golden, a freshman from Maine who flipped the state's reddest, most rural district in 2018.
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Most rural Guineans recognize traditional land rights and few have legally registered ownership of their property.
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In addition, in most rural areas, everyone, including the majority Han group, was allowed two children.
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Marshall, meanwhile, is a Republican in one of the reddest, most rural states in the nation.
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Most rural areas have only one grocery store and school, and only a few restaurants, too.
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"I have won in the most rural district, including the one bordering Iowa," Klobuchar said Saturday.
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It is currently the most rural -- only 40% of sub-Saharan Africa's population live in cities.
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The most rural state on this list, West Virginia has a hard time catching a break.
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Today, only 30 years later, ultra-broadband has become accessible in most rural areas around the world.
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Coos County, along the Canadian border, is the whitest, poorest and most rural county in the state.
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Mnangagwa made the appeal days after President Robert Mugabe declared a state of disaster in most rural areas.
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New highways and rail lines have made even the most rural parts of China dependent on other places.
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The country's most rural counties had suicide rates almost twice as high as those for the most urban counties.
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The hope is to bring reliable internet connections to those who need it most—rural communities and disaster victims.
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As of right now, 14 of its most rural counties don't have any insurance options available for next year.
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This is where most rural Americans actually live and where some of the most important work is being done.
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Still, nearly two-thirds of deaths from unintentional injury in the most rural counties were potentially preventable in 2017.
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This is true in the most rural part of my district, as our co-op plan went out of business.
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The well-furnished homes, surrounded by an electric fence, offer no trace of the hardships endured by most rural families.
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"It's struggling, like most rural communities are in Georgia," said DuBose Porter, a former chairman of the state Democratic Party.
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Wind turbines dot the hillsides and solar panels can be seen on the roofs of even the most rural farmhouses.
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"Organizing for Warren in one of Iowa's most rural counties," by Holly Bailey What in-person voter mobilization looks like.
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Plus, Uber is not helpful in most rural areas and can get expensive if you're going long distances each day.
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"But I come from one of the most rural and beautiful states in the United States," the Vermont senator said.
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In the new Congress Democrats still hold just 35 of the 183 seats in CityLab's two most rural categories of districts.
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The FCC's Connect America Fund (CAF) was established to bring broadband internet access to some of the country's most rural areas.
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A look at the Virginia vote, however, suggests that votes in the most rural, conservative counties may hold the real story.
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In Congress, the state's three most rural districts are still represented by Democrats, including the 28th District, home to the Iron Range.
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In Illinois, Democrats have broadened their appeal from cities alone to capture more suburban districts, but most rural areas are solidly Republican.
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With approximately 9,300 people spread across 31.5 square miles, Redding is one of Fairfield County's most rural and least densely populated towns.
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He told The New York Times in 2671 that satellites would bring television signals to even the most rural parts of India.
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Mr. Winchester found that from 2000 to 2010, most rural Minnesota counties gained early-career to midcareer residents with ample socioeconomic assets.
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My family has always been thick and messy, spread like soft cheese across two counties in the most rural part of Pennsylvania.
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Annie Kuster, who represents the most rural parts of New Hampshire and who (like the entire delegation) supported Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
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Or alternatively, to invest in companies or projects working in under-resourced regions, including in the most rural parts of Africa and India.
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Currently, 28500 percent percent of the country as a whole is over 6900, compared with nearly 2628 percent in the most rural areas.
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In many of the most rural parts of the world, they are the most effective (and sometimes still the only) channels of communication.
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That may be appealing to Iowa Democrats, who have struggled in statewide elections in one of the most rural states in the country.
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Beyond the victories, Democrats increased their share of the vote in dozens of the country's most rural congressional districts, a Reuters analysis shows.
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We need more police protection in our most rural areas, and this legislation will play a significant role in allowing that to happen.
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"It will support victims in most rural provinces to give them a fighting chance, where in the past ... the mortality rate was very high."
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Limiting access to pesticides, poisons that are close at hand for most rural Indians, may prevent such deaths, as it has in Sri Lanka.
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In 2017, the suicide rate for the most rural counties (20 per 100,000) outpaced that in the most urban counties (about 11 per 1003,000).
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Like most rural conservatives, he truly believes that taking guns away from law-abiding citizens will never solve America's gun problems, including mass shootings.
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"What I'm focusing on now is more digital solutions, so we can connect with patients in even the most rural parts of the state."
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The agency, tasked with providing health services to some of the nation's most rural regions, has long been plagued by financial and leadership troubles.
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Earlier today, I was talking with a friend who lives in the Mountain West, in one of the most rural places in the United States.
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In 22017, the suicide rate for the most rural counties was about 2017 per 133,213, compared with nearly 2100 per 2000,000 in the most urban counties.
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A study from Congress' Medicare advisers found that most rural hospitals only have about 40 percent of their acute care beds occupied on a given day.
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It wasn't until the mid-1980s that most rural Americans could choose to have their own private telephone lines — something every American now takes for granted.
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Just one in 226 Americans lives in a rural county, and yet the nomination process begins in one of the most rural states in the nation.
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Unfortunately, many of the most rural and poor states in the nation have opted to not expand Medicaid, leaving millions of rural Americans unable to obtain coverage.
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Nearly 400 bills to restrict abortion access were introduced last year on the state level, and most rural counties in the US don't have an abortion clinic.
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Sayana Press takes the benefits of Depo further in that it can be made available in even the smallest, most rural, and most poverty-stricken villages in Uganda.
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"The only way I've ever run is as an underdog," Cruz told CNN as the bus rolled through one of the most rural parts of the Hawkeye State.
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Most rural adults had two sets of work clothes, both made at home, and better-off families had a nicer set of clothing for church or social outings.
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Ms. Sinta established a network of progressive Islamic boarding schools for girls to promote gender equality in some of the most rural and conservative parts of the country.
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According to the White House opioid commission's 2200 report, 2200 percent of US counties — and 290 percent of the most rural counties — have no physicians who can prescribe buprenorphine.
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Immigration was also a major issue in the heavily Hispanic district, which stretches along much of the Mexican border and is one of the most rural in the country.
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She attempted to do so by highlighting her moderate credentials and accessibility to voters of all stripes, holding town halls even in the most rural areas of the state.
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While rich in minerals, timber, fish and energy resources, most rural people live subsistence lives and annual per capita GDP is around $3,600 a year, according to the IMF.
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Most rural white voters still support Trumpism, but they aren't a majority, and in the midterms a significant number of those voters also broke with the white nationalist agenda.
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The system, which is slowly being reformed, has meant most rural migrants living in cities get minimal access to social benefits and their children often go to substandard schools.
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About 25 percent of all physicians practicing or training in the United States are foreign, but in some inner cities and most rural areas, that share is significantly higher.
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According to the White House opioid commission's 2017 report, 47 percent of US counties — and 72 percent of the most rural counties — have no physicians who can prescribe buprenorphine.
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A VISIT to Okehampton—a small town in England's most rural parliamentary constituency of Central Devon—fulfils a very English yearning for long shadows on cricket grounds and warm beer.
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In fact, the demographic makeup of Fremont, as the next stop up the Platte River from Omaha, is and has always been much more in flux than most rural places.
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Over the next six years, 16 towers were raised—on top of barns, on MARCS towers, on water towers—to deliver high-speed internet to the county's most rural residents.
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Now, the largest employer in most rural areas — Walmart — keeps wages low, offers few to no benefits to part-time workers, and basically leaves workers in the lurch on retirement.
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The details from interviews with Khadija, who like most rural Afghan women has just one name, and the family members were confirmed by local government and police officials in Helmand.
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Though most rural residents live in poverty, the fundamentals are there: the soil, abundant rainfall, and most importantly, communities of farmers doing everything they can to provide for their families.
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Unlike urban and suburban residents, most rural Americans are not connected to municipal sewer lines, saddling them with the full cost of installation, renovation, and service of household wastewater systems.
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Farms ought to be healthy places to live, the commissioners wrote, but doctors and nurses were scarce, and most rural Americans had not been schooled in the rudiments of hygiene.
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The rate of disability increases from 11.8 percent in the most urban metropolitan counties to 15.6 percent in smaller micropolitan areas and 17.7 percent in the most rural, or noncore, counties.
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As the representative of both one of the oldest and one of the most rural districts in the country, I know how badly this rule would affect my constituents in Maine.
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As of the census of 2010, the five most rural states wielded about 50% more electoral votes, and three times as many senators, per resident as the five most urban ones did.
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Critics are worried that the private-sector model pushed by Trump would neglect most rural infrastructure needs, because investors would only be attracted to large-scale projects that can recoup their costs.
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By its count, Republicans now control 22018 of the 50 most rural House seats across the country, and fully 107 of the top 120 -- a stunning ratio of nearly 9-to-1.
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"Most rural Rust Belt America towns have had a lot of trouble, but we've maintained our population solely because of our relationship with Canada," said Colin L. Read, the mayor of Plattsburgh.
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The service relies on small planes to cover some three million square miles of the most rural parts of Australia, flying in doctors and other professionals who offer basic and emergency care.
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In the settlement, New T-Mobile committed to providing "5G wireless broadband coverage to areas where most Texans live" and across most rural parts of the state over the next three years.
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Even in 2018, Democrats made only minimal inroads into the GOP's rural redoubts: after the midterms, the GOP still leads Democrats by 149-35 in the two most rural categories of House seats.
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It's also facing competition from rival Verizon Wireless as it tries to deliver a service that covers even the most rural areas of every state — something virtually every member of Congress cares about.
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A few years ago, I wrote about West Virginia's attempt to name and number streets in some of its poorest, most rural hollows, where residents risked death while ambulances struggled to find them.
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Meanwhile, unless enough states move quickly to adopt the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, most rural folks will once again be left on the sidelines, staring up at fast-disappearing trails of exhaust.
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Many of them are ethnic Chinese refugees expelled from Vietnam, and they and other residents were treated as employees of a local state farm, without the collective land rights given to most rural Chinese.
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"I come from one of the most rural and the most beautiful states in the United States, I will not write off rural America," the Vermont senator told a cheering crowd in Osage, Iowa.
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He thinks that because he's made his case on economic issues so loudly, he's repeatedly won double-digit victories in Vermont, the second-whitest, second-oldest, and second-most-rural state in the nation.
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Our nation's rural telecommunications innovators have made great progress in deploying broadband infrastructure across our country, and have contributed greatly to that success story in serving the most rural parts of the United States.
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Here's why most rural areas are losing population: 73% of rural counties had more people move out than move in, says Fry, and the trend was again most notable in the Northeast and Midwest.
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The states that have experienced the most rural hospital closures over the last 10 years (Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, Alabama, and Missouri) have all refused to expand Medicaid through the 2010 health care law.
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Turnout in rural North Carolina, with a few exceptions, had not increased over 85033 or 2008, but Trump's margins over Clinton in most rural counties were much higher than McCain's or Romney's over Obama.
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Collectively, the 68 most rural counties of Kansas, for instance, have nearly 14 deaths per 100,803 people age 50 or older, well over double the rate for the county around Topeka (6.6), the state capital.
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ATLANTA — At least 16 people were believed dead after a military plane crashed in the Mississippi Delta on Monday, prompting an urgent rescue effort in one of the South's most rural regions, the authorities said.
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Collectively, the 68 most rural counties of Kansas, for instance, have nearly 14 deaths per 20163,000 people age 50 or older, well over double the rate for the county around Topeka (6.6), the state capital.
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With healthcare, there's no reason why a person in far, southern reaches of a country, the most rural region of a country, couldn't have access to oncologists at MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, through technology.
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"But now I feel like I have no fear," said Bassi, who unlike most rural women travels miles out of her village, interacts with men and earns an income - up to 2,000 rupees ($28) every month.
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The street protests that have convulsed Hong Kong are redefining the meaning of these elections throughout the territory: Calls for more representativeness and government accountability have become paramount even in the smallest and most rural communities.
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The problem is that P3s are not necessarily viable for the most rural parts of the country, since these projects have no chance of being profitable for the private investment firms looking to pump money into infrastructure.
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Bullock will make his ability to win crossover voters in his mostly rural state a cornerstone of his appeal to Democratic primary voters and caucusgoers, starting in Iowa, one of the most rural states in the country.
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"We will still have to create, or help create, a basic infrastructure that enables transactions between people or between people and financial institutions in some of the most rural, most disconnected areas of the country," he said.
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Now she has gone even farther, moving to what is perhaps her country's most rural — and distant — 300 kilometer stretch of the Orinoco River, where she has been chronicling life along the border between Colombia and Venezuela.
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A 2018 study by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health reported that in spite of economic and health concerns, most rural Americans are pretty dang happy and hopeful.
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For the study, CDC researchers examined data based on six categories of population density from the most metropolitan, with at least 1 million city residents, to the most rural, with fewer than 275,23.9 residents living in urban communities.
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Because I serve some of the poorest and the most rural parts of Vermont, that's what I did as a C.E.O. I served what some might call the reddest part of Vermont, and people were cool with it.
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But since January, Mr. Delgado, who was born just outside the district and moved back to the area after the 2016 election, has also amplified his engagement in one of the most rural counties represented by a Democrat.
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The restrictions are one reason that, according to the White House opioid commission's 2017 report, 47 percent of US counties — and 72 percent of the most rural counties — had no physicians who could prescribe buprenorphine as of 2016.
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In the shadows of these ultramodern buildings, the ancient Malay village of Kampung Baru still thrives, with free-roaming roosters and a slow pace of life that's usually only to be found in the most rural of villages.
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"I have won in the most rural district, including the one bordering Iowa," Klobuchar said, "And I have won in Michele Bachmann's district every single time," she continued, referencing the former Republican congresswoman who ran for president in 2012.
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However, this 2017 urban suicide rate is 16% higher than in 1999 (about 10 per 100,000), while the 2017 suicide rate for the most rural counties is 53% higher than in 1999 (about 13 per 100,000), the report indicates.
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Democrats should declare themselves — from the most urban America to the most rural America, from Main Street to the farms and the factories — as the party that fights for the many against the party that fights for the few.
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Changing these rising numbers isn't an easy task -- It's going to take major infrastructure development, education, and community cooperation in some of the world's most rural regions to achieve affordable and equitable access to clean water worldwide by 2030.
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A.K.M. Abdul Malek Azad, the project's team leader and a professor at BRAC University in Dhaka, said that most rural community health clinics cannot afford conventional ambulance services, but that the new ambulance would be cheap to buy and to run.
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Most rural areas are still dependent on copper wire, which has limited capacity, and improving the situation will require massive amounts of cold, hard cash investment—around $80 billion, though the White House only actually proposed spending up to $25 billion.
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Not all gains resulted in victories, but Democrats flipped rural congressional districts like the 19th Congressional District in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York and Maine's Second Congressional District, which is the second most rural district in the nation.
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To better understand this political dynamic, compare two instructive elections in locations that have little in common, one in tiny Essex County in the most rural northeast corner of Vermont and another in the only New England metropolis of Boston.
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Brothers and sisters: As someone who represents Vermont, one of the most rural states in the country, let me be very honest with you in saying that the U.S. Congress has, for too long, ignored the many crises facing rural America.
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" Wishing to avoid that pitfall, Mason abandoned the Cabral story and scrubbed "A Far Country" clean of history and place, writing it from the point of view of a 13-year-old girl from the most rural part of an unnamed "far country.
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From July 2016 through September 2017, 10 of 16 states involved in the ESOOS program reported a significant increase of overdoses, and the average increase across large cities in all 16 states was 54 percent, as compared to 21 percent in the most rural areas.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has declared a state of disaster in most rural parts of the country severely hit by a drought, with 26 percent of the population said to be in need of food aid, the government has said in a statement.
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Though Maine is not among the 32 states that chose to expand Medicaid coverage under Obamacare, it is one of the country's most rural states, which tend to have older populations and higher health care costs, according to the Center for Budget Policies and Priorities.
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France, which is at the bottom of EU rankings for ultra-fast fibre optic broadband coverage, sees 2025 as a new goal for rolling out the technology across the country through a complex mix of public and private funding, in particular in the most rural areas.
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Maine's network of family planning providers has left Title X and has warned that in the worst-case scenario, it could be forced to close most of its health centers, leaving large swaths of one of the most rural states in the nation with no such clinics.
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But here on the far western end of the nation's biggest and most rural state, where roads are nearly nonexistent and populations are scattered across tiny villages, caregivers are trying to change the equation not by sending more doctors out, but by bringing more women in.
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Oregon, for example, forbids owners of most rural land to build a single house on their own land unless they own at least 6900 acres, actually farm it, and actually earned (depending on soil productivity) $2628,28503 to $22019,000 a year farming in two of the last three years.
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"The simple fact is that most rural and suburban areas are either sparsely populated or organized in small districts where there are not enough schools for vouchers to be a viable or effective policy solution," Neil Campbell and Catherine Brown of the Center for American Progress wrote in a new report.
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Early the next morning I left, and for the remainder of my stay sequestered myself in the island's most rural regions: Valleviken, where a maritime-themed hotel rose up out of sheer nothingness on a lapping inlet; the Furillen peninsula, the site of an old limestone quarry; Ekstakusten, a jagged curl of nature preserve.
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In the most rural state in the country (which saw a whopping 10 feet of snow this winter!), some patients must travel more than five hours, and delay necessary care, to reach one of the three Maine cities where there are physicians performing abortions, rather than obtaining care from a perfectly capable provider in their own communities.
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H from Steps had just been born, the country was going through one of the most intense heatwaves in its history and The Wurzels released "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)"—a 'Scrumpy & Western' song that opens with definitely-probably the most rural sex metaphor in recorded history ("I drove a tractor through your haystack last night") and goes downhill fast from there.
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Even as drug overdose deaths rose to a record 22003,22016 in 22016, at least two-thirds of which were linked to opioids, the statistics show that US doctors aren't on board with fully dealing with this crisis: According to the White House opioid commission's 22016 report, 22017 percent of US counties — and 20173 percent of the most rural counties — have no physicians who can prescribe buprenorphine.
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But she still represents the most rural seat in New York (which has historically been controlled by Republicans, though it was held by a Democrat from 00003 to 2151), taking in almost all of the state from the Erie Canal north to the Canadian border, and has won her first two elections in blowouts (thanks to some help from a Green Party candidate who isn't running again).
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If that story is true — and I should be clear that this is just one study and we don't know that this story holds for most rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa or even most in Kenya — it implies there's a lot of "slack" in the economy as a matter of course, and a bit of Keynesian stimulus that rouses underutilized resources in the economy, like surplus labor, could do a considerable amount of good.
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This has already come up in a substantive way in the post-election debate about the proper apportionment of "empathy" for those who voted for Trump: Many of the prescriptions to repair understanding between "costal elites" and "rural America" failed to grapple with the fact that most rural and poor people of color didn't vote for Trump, and that nonwhite urban "elites" may have been skeptical of his supporters for reasons that had nothing to do with snobbery and isolation, and everything to do with their own humanity.
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