High tech and biotech say they’re the route to rural development

Rural America, home to 15 percent of the U.S. population, “is still feeling the effects of the Great Recession” in the form of slow growth in wages and slow economic growth overall, a Minnesota official told a House Agriculture subcommittee. Rural electric and telecommunications groups, joined by the biotechnology industry, said their industries represent the… » Read More

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