Source: FARM POLICY NEWS, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, 6/19/17

Last month, a Wall Street Journal article provided an in-depth look at a variety of statistical indicators from rural America in an article titled, "Rural America is the New, 'Inner City.'" That article explained that, "In terms of poverty, college attainment, teenage births, divorce, death rates from heart disease and cancer, reliance on federal disability insurance and male labor-force participation, rural counties now rank the worst among the four major U.S. population groupings (the others are big cities, suburbs and medium or small metro areas).” 

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