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The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy

December 15, 2018/

Can rural America be saved?

There are 60 million people, almost one in five Americans, living on farms, in hamlets and in small towns across the landscape. For the last quarter century the story of these places has been one of relentless economic decline.

 

By Eduardo Porter


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