"While the nation as a whole has finally clawed its way back to
pre-recession job numbers, non-metro counties have seen virtually no
growth in jobs in the last three years," Tim Marema reports for the Daily Yonder. A report by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture "attributed the slower employment growth in rural areas to several
factors: slow rural population growth, a lower percentage of college
graduates and a higher percentage of older residents in rural areas
versus metro ones." Rural areas did see growth "in agriculture and extractive industries like oil-and-gas development." (USDA graphic)
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