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Helping Rural America Catch Up
September 19, 2016 /
The latest economic data show the largest growth in real income and the greatest drop in poverty in years. But the biggest gains have been in the large metropolitan centers, and millions of Americans in rural communities and small Rust Belt towns still feel left behind. As Ralph Kingan, the mayor of Wright, Wyo., put it: That economic growth "ain’t out in the West."
Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/09/19/prosperity-is-up-but-not-for-rural-america
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