The $78 billion Rebuild Rural America bill could usher in a revolution in the way the US funds rural communities. Australia should consider its own version, writes Jack Archer.
It provides no long-term certainty for planning or ways to invest in initiatives that will take 5–10 years to bear fruit.
The diagram developed by the authors attempting to show the connections between these programs was so complicated it had to be simplified to fit on the Brookings webpage.We too have many individual grant programs from different agencies all with their own objectives, reports, timing, processes, and peculiarities.
This means that instead of all the grant programs run by government departments, money would be provided directly to rural communities in a single pool to be spent according to agreed local plans and decisions targeting key issues, and what might work best in each area. For their increasingly broke local governments and community groups relying on volunteer effort it would mean the chance to spend much more effort and money on solving local problems.
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