Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas (2023) / Chapter Skim
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15 Improving access to jobs, education, health care, and other services in rural areas presents complex challenges. Some challenges are intrinsic to the characteristics of rural areas, while others are organizational in nature, such as overcoming jurisdictional boundaries and engaging with rural stakeholders.
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16 Access to Jobs, Economic Opportunities, and Education in Rural Areas 3.2 Organizational Challenges Immutable aspects of rural areas, discussed in the previous section, fuel the following organizational challenges: • While jurisdictional boundaries and cross-agency coordination challenges also exist in urban areas, large, low-density rural regions often require planning initiatives and services to cross jurisdictional boundaries, including special coordination to combine funding sources and address diverse regulations. Cross-agency coordination can be especially important for addressing rural access, as there are many different types of organizations, ranging from state DOTs to local economic development organizations, that can play a role in improving access.
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Challenges to Improving Rural Access 17 securing funding is a major challenge in many rural areas. Low population and job density also mean that rural areas often have a smaller tax base from which to fund projects or provide the local match to federal funds.
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