Fiscal Intermediary (FI) must be available to assist individuals in exercising budget authority. Individuals can perform some or all of the FI functions themselves. Typically, however, individuals prefer that the FI entity performs these functions for them. FI helps individuals:
88% of FFA members are in grades 9-12; 7% are in middle school; 5% are high school graduates. 70% of FFA members live in rural/farm areas; 19% live in small towns; 10% live in urban/suburban areas. FFA chapters are in 18 of the 20 largest U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Urban areas comprise only 5.28% of the state -- which means that almost all of Californiaâs residents are packed into less than 6% of the geography. New Jersey has the second highest percentage of residents living in urban areas, at 94.7% of the stateâs population, but a whopping 60.3% of the state qualifies as urban area. Some heavily urbanized states have a lot of rural land but almost no rural population.