UNDERNEWS: Job growth in rural areas continues to lag

August 23, 2017

Job growth in rural areas continues to lag

Rural Blog - "Job growth in rural America continues to lag the rest of the country, according to the latest figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics," Bill Bishop reports for The Daily Yonder. While jobs increased about 2 percent in large metropolitan areas from June 2016 to June 2017, rural areas overall only increased 0.29 percent, and the 924 counties that are farthest away from cities didn't gain jobs at all; they declined by 0.02 percent.

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Greg Gerritt said...: Job growth lags in every rural area around the world. Almost all job creation is in cities. In fact the whole idea of modern economies is to move folks from the country to the city, and places with new immigrants from the countryside are the places with rapidly growing economies.; August 23, 2017 at 9:12 PM

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