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4 Building Greater Prosperity in Rural Communities
4 Building Greater Prosperity in Rural Communities
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(Romo) • In the Navajo Nation, elimination of a 5 percent sales tax on healthy foods and imposition of a 2 percent sales tax on un healthy foods has encouraged healthy eating and supported community wellness projects.
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. In 2016 -- a year in which the state added jobs overall -- 73 percent of rural counties FIGURE 4-1 Six states in the United States had less employment in 2017 than a decade earlier.
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BUILDING GREATER PROSPERITY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES 31 Year-over-Year Employment Change FIGURE 4-2 Fourteen counties in Alabama experienced declines in employment in 2016. SOURCES: As presented by Brian Lewandowski, June 13, 2017; adapted from BLS, 2017b.
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Only two of Alabama's rural counties are in the top quartile for employment growth, and only 25 percent are in the top half. The other 75 percent of rural Alabama counties are in the bottom half of national employment growth.
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The education level of residents is a powerful force for economic growth. In looking at Colorado's 47 rural counties, the percentage of the population with a high school diploma, a bachelor's degree, and a graduate degree was increasingly correlated with a county's employment growth.
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If it is putting away land for some sort of industrial complex for down the road for building, if it is building a trail along the river, if it is saving the railroad and turning it into a tourism amenity, there are countless stories where the communities that have been more success ful in Colorado point to things that have been done in the past that are paying dividends today. PROVIDING HOPE IN THE MID-SOUTH STATES HOPE, which includes the Hope Enterprise Corporation, Hope Credit Union, and Hope Policy Institute, is a 23-year-old organization founded in the Mississippi Delta that initially focused on small businesses to create jobs that pay good wages and offer good benefits.
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More than half of the 39 counties in Arkansas, FIGURE 4-3 One-quarter of the nation's persistent poverty counties are located in the mid-South states. SOURCES: As presented by Bill Bynum, June 13, 2017; Hope Policy Institute, 2016; adapted from Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, 2017.
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About two-thirds of the jobs HOPE has helped create through its small business loan fund offer health insurance to their workers, helping to reduce stress. "We don't intuitively connect health and jobs, but it is clear," he said.
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It affects people's ability to build assets, accumulate wealth, and access credit. Since the 2008 recession, the credit union has grown from seven branches to 30 branches, three-quarters of which are in persistent poverty census tracts.
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The organization processed thousands of families and taught other organizations in Florida how to do the same. It then turned to health care issues, working with other organizations around Dade City.
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was formed in March 2012 in response to the high rates of obesity, diabetes, and the complications of these health problems among children, youth, families, adults, and elders living in Navajo communities. The alliance comprises grassroots-level community health advocates from various communities, with a mission of raising awareness, informing, educating, and mobilizing community members to combat obesity, diabetes, and other chronic health issues.
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DCAA has focused on policy and legislative changes. First, it has sought to eliminate a 5 percent Navajo Nation sales tax on healthy foods and to add a 2 percent sales tax on unhealthy foods.
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It is changing the mindset, even in the leadership. Other tribes and groups around the world are considering similar policies regarding unhealthy foods, and the actions of the Navajo Nation can be an example for them.
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Healthy foods can help Native people reclaim their identity and change the narratives in their communities from being victims to being victors. "Our currency was always produce.
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Livingston observed that technology is a big issue in the Navajo Nation, explaining that "we normally don't have LTE or 3G. We have extended 1X.
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