Law

Creating Successful Rural Opportunity Zone Projects With New QOZ 2.0 Benefits

As property owners, developers and investors evaluate in 2026 the Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ 2.0) tax benefits implemented in the Working Families Tax Cuts Act (the act), the most impactful ...
Des Moines Register

Iowa will receive $152 million from US Agriculture Department toward rural development

Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...
Forbes

Assessing Financial Viability In Rural EB-5 Projects

I am the Managing Partner of EB5AN—a national EB-5 visa firm with 2,300+ foreign investors from 60+ countries. Under the new rules introduced by the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act of 2022 (the “RIA”), ...

The conversation we must now have about rural development

I welcome the Jamaica Observer’s editorial of July 2, 2026 which continued the national conversation on rural and community ...
Grand Forks Herald

Turtle Mountain organizations and Region 3 planning council receive funding from USDA Rural Development

BISMARCK, N.D. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has given out almost $12 million in grants and loans for rural and tribal communities in North Dakota, a press release said ...

CM Vijay reviews rural development projects, orders faster delivery of welfare schemes

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on Wednesday directed officials to ensure that all rural development and ...
The Conversation

Northern B.C. shows how big resource projects can strain rural health care

American tariffs and fears of a prolonged recession have increased calls to expand resource development and infrastructure projects in Canada. The pace and scope of expansion projects like these have ...