Poverty Issues In Rural Nebraska, Urban Areas Overlap, But Representatives Grapple With Different Solutions

By Joseph Morton / World-Herald Bureau, Omaha World-Herald
Sat, 04/22/2017 - 10:15pm

Poverty issues may conjure images of blighted urban neighborhoods, but many residents of rural Nebraska and Iowa face the same challenges.

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