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In 'Historic Shift', America's Rural Population Declines for the First Time:
While the percentage of American's living outside of urban areas has been declining for some time, overall rural population loss has occurred for the first time since the Census began keeping track, ...
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Rural America:
In trying to avoid fees that support rural phone service, communication companies have unintentionally created big headaches for rural residents getting calls from cities.
Can the FCC help fix ...
Rural Development program recommendations could hurt small communities:
Congress asked USDA to recommend changes to refocus its Rural Development programs. Instead the agency seems to be proposing to widen its service area and hurt small communities in the process.
By ...
As more move to the city, does rural America still matter?:
"Strategies for Economic Improvement in Distressed Rural Counties." :
On November 27, 2012, researchers from the University of Tennessee held a webinar to review the ARC-sponsored research study "Strategies for Economic Improvement in Appalachia's Distressed Rural Counties." ...
This is how you build a tech community:
This is the type of tech center that government officials dream about building.
You can't help being overwhelmed by the natural beauty and Swiss-village-like charm of Boulder, Colorado. With a population ...
The Creative Economy is not just for Large Urban Centres:
Large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto, are important drivers in the global economy, but they are not for everyone. While for many, large cities are exciting and stimulating places, ...
The 50-Foot Commute Takes Off Across America:
How to Attract Tech-Savvy Workers Outside Big Cities:
Companies like Facebook and Google are known for luring young, tech-savvy people to work for them through competitive salaries and perks. For smaller businesses--especially those outside the cities--offering ...
Cities Needing Highly Skilled Workers Aren't Training Them:
Finding a Brain Gain in Rural Communities:
There are newspaper articles and books galore about population decline in rural America. They are misleading. The population of rural America is growing. And, in particular, there is a "brain gain" ...
Long commute time linked with poor health, new study shows:
New evidence shows that a long commute by car not only takes hours out of your day, but could take years off your life.
By Theresa Juva-Brown, The (Westchester, N.Y.) Journal News
Full Story: ...
Is There Such a Thing as 'Rural' Gentrification?:
Gentrification is a trend most commonly associated with hip, edgy urban areas. Thomas Sigler argues that the phenomenon is occurring with increasing frequency in America's small towns, particularly ...
Emerging markets are driving worldwide telecommuting wave:
"It is really a story about the emerging markets and I am not sure if that is because the West is about to pick up the trend. They are definitely still skeptical," said Keren Gottfried, research manager ...
Getting Workers to Rural America is a Challenge :
For the good of the nation and the good of those families, we need to work toward a solution.
Columbus, Nebraska, has a problem. The rural town has jobs, but it can't find workers to fill them. ...
Top 9 Rural Small Business Trends for 2012:
Rural small business trends are always different from general small business trends. This year, the difference is in the economic outlook. With the consensus of economic predictions for 2012 showing slower ...
U.S. Population Migrates From Coasts for 'Gigantic' Income Boost:
New York, California and other high- cost U.S. states may lose residents as the economy recovers, continuing a trend during the past decade of Americans searching for more affordable regions to settle.
The ...
'We Don't Have to Die...' People are more important to towns than things. Successful small towns recruit people not factories. Young people will stay home, or come home, when they have a genuine stake in decisions the community is making.:
Seven out of ten rural young people in one survey said they had never been asked by an adult how they would make their communities better. That's a big mistake. Adults need to ask.
The story Trent ...
A Virtual Team is Not Another Name for Outsourcing:
Almost every startup is a virtual team these days, since most don't start out with dedicated office space, and some or all members of the team work part-time or out of their own home. It's a small world, ...
Creating Rural Wealth:
Trying to "attract" jobs to rural communities has never worked for most places. Development is a do it yourself job -- and the process begins with a plan for building wealth.
By Marjorie Kelly
Full ...
Employees Alone Together :
When the 80-person sales team of CUNA Mutual Group gets together for their annual meeting, they breakfast on juice and muffins and chat about their personal lives over cocktails. It's a pretty run-of-the-mill ...
Government CanTelework Like a Private Company. :
Telework is what the world is about." former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy
Count former Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy among the industry heavyweights who support telework in government workplaces.
McNealy, ...
Why America's Young And Restless Will Abandon Cities For Suburbs:
For well over a decade urban boosters have heralded the shift among young Americans from suburban living and toward dense cities. As one Wall Street Journal report suggests, young people will abandon ...
New Report: Long Commutes Are Relationship Killers:
If you have a 45-minute work commute, you might want to pick up some flowers on the (long) way home. A social geographer at Umea University, in Sweden, is reporting that people who commute 45-minutes ...
Seattle's Tech Job Crunch: How Long Can the Valley Invaders Poach from Microsoft, Amazon Before the Talent Well Runs Low?:
Another month gone by in Seattle, and another Silicon Valley company has moved in to establish a beachhead for recruiting tech workers. And they all seem to say the same thing: This area is richsust ...
More Businesses Are Outsourcing--to Rural and Small Town U.S.A.:
Is your small business dealing with an increased workload and more demand from clients and customers? That's a good thing. But with the economy still uncertain, many of us are leery about taking on full-time ...
The 20 Happiest, Healthiest States In America:
Smart Cities: Getting Greener, and Making Money Doing It :
Top 10 places to live in the West:
The American West: People from all over the country dream of living in it. But where to go when you finally get here? Dream of living off the grid? Of ditching your car? Of starting your own business? ...
The Midwest: Coming Back? "The Third Coast":
Oh my name it is nothing
My age it is less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
-Bob Dylan, "With God on Our Side," 1964
For nearly a half century since the Minnesota-raised ...
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