Jonathan Johnson Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Rural Pennsylvania spoke at this week's seminar. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania is a bipartisan, bicameral legislative agency. The Center for Rural Pennsylvania serves as a resource for rural policy within the general assembly. During the presentation, Mr. Johnson presented five little known facts about rural Pennsylvania. They were the following:
1. There is a rural PA
2. There are two rural PAs (east and west)
3. Rural is different than Urban
4. Rural does not equal agriculture
5. Rural residents like living in rural areas
Mr. Johnson also gave a "pop quiz" on facts about rural Pennsylvania. Through this quiz, the interns learned more facts about rural Pennsylvania. The following are some examples:
1. Two counties in PA have more cows than people. The counties are Bradford and Fulton.
2. The sun rose in Philadelphia at 6:32 AM. It rose at 6:56 AM in Erie, a difference of 24 minutes.
3. In rural Pennsylvania there are more nursing home beds than hospital beds (27,000 and 7,900 respectively).
