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Lawmakers in Oklahoma and Washington have declared dire shortages, and in Montana, 65 percent of rural schools in remote settings reported difficulty filling vacancies in 2018, compared with 35 percent of nonrural schools.

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of.

Spending on factory machinery, public-works projects and other fixed-asset investments in China’s nonrural areas grew 5.5% in the January-July period from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday.

Investment in factories, buildings and other fixed assets in nonrural areas climbed 8.2% year-over-year in the January-September period, edging up from the 8.1% pace for the first eight months.

Investment in factories, buildings and other fixed assets in nonrural areas climbed 8.1% on year in the January-July period, decelerating from the 9% increase in the first six months of the year and again lower than the 8.9% predicted by economists.