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Dee Davis, President of the Center for Rural Strategies, will sit on the panel "Popping Your Bubble: Stories of the Digital Divide" at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin. The panel, March 9 at 2pm, will address how people in small and isolated communities deal with limited access to broadband.

Follow the panel on Twitter with the hashtag #SXdgtldiv. Find out more about the panel on the SXSW website.

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Social Security in rural America

Thu, 11/10/2011 - 15:32

Social Security has a greater economic impact in rural areas than it does in metropolitan ones, according to a study conducted by Roberto Gallardo at the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) at Mississippi State University. Dr. Gallardo conducted the study in conjunction with the Daily Yonder, the independent rural news journal published by the Center for Rural Strategies.

Elouise Cobell: Speaking Rural Truth to Power

Wed, 10/19/2011 - 12:36

Our friend Elouise Cobell, a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Rural Strategies, died October 16, 2011, in Great Falls, Montana.

Elouise was a tireless advocate for the Blackfeet Nation and for rural and tribal communities around the country. She took on the federal government over its misuse of the Indian Trust Fund, which for more than a century pilfered billions of dollars belonging to Native Americans.