Metro areas get chunk of rural stimulus aid
WASHINGTON -- More than $2.7 billion of stimulus aid for struggling parts of rural America has gone to the nation's biggest metropolitan areas...
From USA Today
WASHINGTON — More than $2.7 billion of stimulus aid for struggling parts of rural America has gone to the nation’s biggest metropolitan areas.
That’s nearly a quarter of the $12 billion in rural assistance the government has paid out so far under President Obama’s economic stimulus package, a USA TODAY review shows. It went to small, far-flung suburbs in metropolitan areas with more than a million residents, including growing towns around Atlanta and Phoenix…
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