Metro areas get chunk of rural stimulus aid

Metro areas get chunk of rural stimulus aid

From "USA Today":http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-12-27-rural-stimulus-aid_N.htm WASHINGTON -- More than $2.7 billion of stimulus aid for struggling parts of rural America has gone to the nation's biggest metropolitan areas. That's nearly a quarter of the $12 billion in rural assistance the government has paid out so far under President Obama's economic stimulus package, a USA TODAY review shows. It went to small, far-flung suburbs in metropolitan areas with more than a million residents, including growing towns around Atlanta and Phoenix... Continued at "USA Today":http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-12-27-rural-stimulus-aid_N.htm