Source: Bob Etheridge, HERALD SUN, 5/22/20

President Trump’s agenda for rural America has been terrible, from a disastrous trade war that hurt farmers to failed leadership on the opioid crisis. Unfortunately, coronavirus has severely exacerbated the inequities rural N.C. was facing. COVID-19 has hit counties with prisons and meatpacking plants particularly hard, along with majority-black rural counties across the South. To make matters worse, Trump’s administration launched a war on access to health care. While 1 in 4 rural hospitals remain in jeopardy, especially in states like North Carolina that have refused to expand Medicaid...

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