The government's definition of what communities are rural drives billions in grants | KCUR 89.3 - NPR in Kansas City. Local news, entertainment and podcasts.

Small towns far from big cities rely upon federal grants to help them, but numerous definitions of what the government considers rural make that complicated.

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