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3 ways the Trump administration could reinvest in rural America’s future, starting with health care

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par Randolph Hubach, Professor of Public Health, Purdue University
Cody Mullen, Clinical Professor of Public Health, Purdue University

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration.

Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a rapid pace, leaving rural residents traveling farther for health care. Affordable housing is increasingly hard to find in rural communities, where pay is often lower and poverty higher than average. Land ownership is changing, leaving more communities with outsiders wielding influence over their local resources.

As experts in rural…

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