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Aug Zoominar on Rural Assets Available to View
IRDC’s August Zoominar with Amanda Weinstein of the Center on Rural Innovation (CORI) is available to view and her slide deck can be found at Rural Public Capital Webinar (1).
The Zoom recording is:
Passcode: ?y=1AQJ7
The presentation focused on the recent report for CORI that Amanda led. This report synopsis appears on the CORI website:
Public investment shapes whether communities can build infrastructure, grow local businesses, train workers, and create the conditions for long-term local economic opportunity.
But across rural America, many governments face a structural disadvantage: smaller tax bases, higher per-capita costs, limited staffing, and less access to flexible public funding. The result is an uneven playing field that makes it harder for rural communities to invest in their own futures.
CORI’s new report, Uneven Ground: Local Public Funding Gaps Between Rural and Nonrural America, examines how public funding systems can either reinforce rural disinvestment or help communities build lasting capacity.
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