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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Buttigieg: SECURING A HEALTHY FUTURE FOR RURAL AMERICA
This morning, Pete announced a new plan to secure a healthy future for rural and overlooked communities. Read it here: http://lil.ms/3c84/5l1ouw
SECURING A HEALTHY FUTURE FOR RURAL AMERICA
Where you live should not determine how healthy you are or how long you live. Winning the next 40 years means making sure every American is able to thrive.
It is time to break with the politics of the past and usher in a new era for rural America.
Rural communities help sustain our country and propel our economy. Yet rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people living in cities. That is wrong. Not just because where you live shouldn’t dictate how long you live, but because when we fail one part of our country, we fail our whole country.
It hasn’t always been this way. In the early 1980s, rural Americans could expect to live as long as Americans living in cities. Since then, our leaders have too often overlooked and underinvested in rural America. Today, the gap between rural and urban life expectancy is at its widest point in at least half a century.
We need to lift rural communities up as places of opportunity, both for this generation and future ones. That work begins by deploying investment and innovation to secure the health of all rural residents, whether that’s a veteran struggling with mental health challenges or a Native woman giving birth.
It is time to break with the politics of the past and usher in a new era for rural America.
Rural communities help sustain our country and propel our economy. Yet rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people living in cities. That is wrong. Not just because where you live shouldn’t dictate how long you live, but because when we fail one part of our country, we fail our whole country.
It hasn’t always been this way. In the early 1980s, rural Americans could expect to live as long as Americans living in cities. Since then, our leaders have too often overlooked and underinvested in rural America. Today, the gap between rural and urban life expectancy is at its widest point in at least half a century.
We need to lift rural communities up as places of opportunity, both for this generation and future ones. That work begins by deploying investment and innovation to secure the health of all rural residents, whether that’s a veteran struggling with mental health challenges or a Native woman giving birth.
More at the link.
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden