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Better Service for Rural Renters: Innovative App for Field Employees Streamlines Recordkeeping

October 28, 2014 Tony Hernandez, Administrator, Rural Housing Service

Velma Hansen has lived in Fort Benton, Montana for over 60 years, the last dozen of them at Canyon Villas. The engaging 91-year-old keeps an impeccably clean apartment in the rent-controlled complex financed by USDA Rural Development. As one of our hundreds of multi-family properties across rural...

Rural Technology

Collective Courage: New Book Relates History of African-American Co-ops

October 28, 2014 Thomas W. Gray, Ph.D., Rural Sociologist, Agricultural Economist, USDA Cooperative Programs

Note: Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, was published this year by Penn State University Press ( www.psupress.org ). The following is one in a series of blogs being posted in observance of National Cooperative Month in October. Scholars of...

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