Rural America’s Future Is Riding on a Cell Signal

It’s critical for the economic future of rural America that CoverageCo and companies like it succeed. In the wake of the Trump election, there has been new focus on the struggles of rural America. While urban areas have bounced back well above their pre-recession economic performance levels, non-metro areas have barely risen above the bottom of the trough on a graph of economic indicators. In the last few years, rural areas have seen the first net loss of population in over half a century, and the population that is left is rapidly aging. Higher education attainment is well below the national average in rural communities, and the heroin epidemic is disproportionately hitting rural areas: 75 percent of heroin addicts are in non-metro communities.

Matt Dunne

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