Issues
Rural Life
Among the hardest hit by the trends toward irresponsible international trade, outsourcing of jobs and a deteriorating manufacturing are rural Americans, where struggling family farms and diminishing populations add to the crunch. Bob Abboud will make rural recovery a priority, encouraging investment in job-producing businesses to flourish in rural areas, and address head-on the problems facing small farmers, from unfair practices engaged in by megafarming corporations to discriminatory banking practices.
