Hundreds of US urban areas will become rural with new criteria
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The U.S. Census Bureau is changing the criteria under which cities, towns and villages will be considered urban.
That matters because urban and rural areas qualify for different types of federal funding. Some communities worry the change could affect health clinics in rural areas as well as transportation and education funding from federal programs. But leaders in other communities designated to lose their urban status say it won’t make a difference.
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