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Most of America's rural areas are doomed to decline

  • Written by David Swenson, Associate Scientist of Economics, Iowa State University
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Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people. The story is markedly different in the nation’s largest urban communities.

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