Rural America as a whole is seeing job and income growth for the first time since the Great Recession of 2008. We are also realizing a reverse in outmigration from rural areas and lower rates of poverty. About 15 percent of the population—46 million people—are living in rural America. Rural America plays a key role in the national economy, producing food and other goods that are vital to the rest of the country
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