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Metro area populations surge as rural America shrinks
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| Last Edited | RP Mar 22, 2018 09:15am |
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| Author | Reid Wilson |
| News Date | Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:05:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Americans and immigrants from abroad are flocking to the nation’s metropolitan areas in droves, pursuing new jobs and economic opportunity. But at the same time, rural America is losing population at an alarming rate, raising fears that economies slow to recover from the recession have dark futures ahead.
Many of the counties that have lost population over the last several years are experiencing not only a migration exodus, but also natural declines — that is, more deaths than births. That, said demographer Cheryl Russell, editorial director of New Strategist Press, is a sign that rural economies are likely to continue to suffer. |
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