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https://downhomenc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/tom-rogerson-76XdrTKHNoU-unsplash-scaled.jpg256017072,220,128 people call rural North Carolina home. And today, we find ourselves looking for solutions to some of the biggest challenges that have ever faced our rural communities in modern U.S. history. The struggles we were already facing have been compounded by the rapid spread of COVID-19 in our communities. Our rural economies are being... Read more »