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Lots of polarizing stuff this week, so if you want respite this weekend, watch my & Brent Orrell’s convo #OnTheFrontPorch w Benji Backer American Conservation Coalition & Michelle Moore Groundswell as they seek common ground on clean energy in rural American Enterprise Institute Brookings Global ctse.aei.org/on-the-front-p…

Perspectives from The Brookings Institution experts on the implications of a USAID shutdown brookings.edu/articles/what-…

U.S. farmers did $2.1 billion of business w/USAID in 2020: current freeze & impending shutdown putting lots of communities in rural America at risk washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Good thread on current status of situation w/USAID

Excellent piece by Lucia Hamner & Barb Hendrie, int'l devp pros w/experience at orgs such as World Bank USAID UN Environment Programme, highlighting why it's more difficult than it needs to be for rural towns in the US to access federal $$ (esp now) + why it's impt brookings.edu/articles/inves…

Zooming out the AI impact variations flatten out a bit. Overall, AI exposure labels vary modestly from 35% in the nation's 821 urban counties to 30% in its 1,053 counties brookings.edu/articles/the-g… Tony Pipa Michael J. Hicks

Here's the highest-, lowest-, and median #AI-exposed county in every state from our new report on the geography of #GenAI. Check it out: brookings.edu/articles/the-g… Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Brookings Metro Andrew Carter Henry Grabar OECD SMEs, Regions, Cities & Tourism Lydia DePillis Chao Deng Tony Pipa

Highly recommend this analysis by Brookings Metro colleagues Mark Muro Molly Kinder Shriya Methkupally about the geographic distribution of jobs most exposed to AI - white collar jobs are most in the sights, and rural places generally rank lower…

Thanks Tony Pipa. Would say everybody faces layered issues. --Urban office economies will benefit from #GenAI as a productivity driver but also may see more worker disruption. -Smaller-town and rural places may be insulated from disruption but could miss out on gains

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) has supported over 25,000 projects and reached every state in the U.S. And it primarily benefits Republican congressional districts, Tony Pipa and Adam Aley find in their latest analysis: brookings.edu/articles/the-r…

In a new The Brookings Institution memo, SSRC President Anna Harvey and coauthors Jennifer Doleac Jenni Owen Jonathon Attridge Tony Pipa Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) Georgia Policy Labs call for investment in university-government partnerships aimed at increasing the innovation capacity of state and local govts.

A debate that will be spreading, but this particular one is Davis, WV a rural success story that now has a questions of what it wants to be, and if they'll have any say in it. westvirginiawatch.com/2025/05/28/it-…