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Trouble viewing? Click HERE to view online November 2019MT Community Development UpdateAs you can see from the banner above, this newsletter is now the Community Development Specialist e-news. We will continue to encourage colleagues across Extension and beyond to contribute announcements and content and will be focusing on specific programming from the specialist's office. Please continue to send your additions via email before the 1st of each month. Paul Lachapelle MSU Community Development Specialist
Reports & ResourcesThe Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You |
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People and goods are on the move faster and farther than ever. All that movement comes at a cost -- not just the sticker price of a new car, train ticket or shipping bill, but also an environmental cost. Transport, in fact, eats up a significant portion of our carbon budget.
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Experts on rural America will tell you again and again that there's no such thing as one single, monolithic rural America. That point gets made forcefully in a new report from the Urban Institute. The report, which comes in the form of an interactive data dashboard, looks at food insecurity across America. Food insecurity on average tends to be a bit higher in rural counties versus urban ones. But there's a tremendous variety in food insecurity across rural counties - and even within the same states.
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The share of young adults who are not engaged in work or education has gone down gradually in recent decades and is now at its lowest point in 30 years (13.7%). The downward trend in this figure - sometimes referred to as the "disconnection rate" - reflects in part the nation's tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher levels of engagement among young women. In 2018, only 14.4% of 18- to 24-year-old women were neither working nor enrolled in school, down from 21.7% in 1989.
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The data was collected by researchers from 1,787 menu items at 10 fast food chains for 1986, 1991 and 2016. The size and calories of fast food menu items have changed over the past 30 years. What do you notice and wonder about these changes?
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November 7, 2019
Online at 11:00 AM, MST
Small Business Webinar
December 5, 2019
Online at 11:00 AM, MST
Small Business Webinar
December 5-6
Sage Lodge in Pray, MT
Leadership Montana
January 9, 2020
Online at 11:00 AM, MST
Small Business Webinar
This talk will explore the life and times of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with an emphasis on the critical years between the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 and his assassination in 1968, and the lessons those of us working in the field of community development can learn from this critical period in American history - a time when, like today, the nation grappled with problems of race, class, war, and inequality, with no less than the future of Democracy at stake. at stake.
January 23, 2020 MSU Campus SUB Ballroom A, Bozeman
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Deadline: Apr 9, 2020
Funder: Agency for International Development
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October 30, 2019 NPR
November 1, 2019 AP News
November 3, 2019 Top Stories
Nov 2, 2019 KTVQ
Nov 2, 2019 Missoulian
Nov 4, 2019 KTVH
MSU Extension - Community Development |