More Than $800M Aims to Strengthen Rural Infrastructure and Create Jobs – Morning AgClips: Funding to benefit nearly 480,000 people and advance President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that USDA is investing $808 million to help rural cooperatives and utilities build and improve electric infrastructure and increase electric grid reliability and security, connecting hundreds of thousands of people in rural areas. This funding will also help provide clean drinking water and sanitary wastewater systems in rural areas for years to come. Today’s announcement will benefit nearly 480,000 people in 36 states and two U.S. territories while building and strengthening rural infrastructure, and creating good-paying jobs.