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As seen in: Barron's, AWWA Opflow, TIME, Seacoast Online, Foster's Daily Democrat, The Daily Yonder, African American Golfer's Digest
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 Election 2024: The Big Pout | The Daily Yonder

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By Bill Bishop, Robert Cushing Verified, Sarah Melotte
| The Daily Yonder Verified
Trump administration policies will have an outsized impact on rural America, where the economy and demographics conspire to put rural communities at risk from potential cuts in both social programs and public investment. But it’s impossible to have a discussion about these issues without a deluge of comments that rural voters “brought it on themselves” by supporting Donald Trump.
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Six Out of 10 Rural Counties Lost Jobs in Last Two Decades

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By Bill Bishop, Robert Cushing Verified
| The Daily Yonder Verified
Full-page version of map. Half of all U.S. counties lost jobs over the last two decades, according to figures supplied by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rural America lost jobs between 2000 and 2019. But the trend in jobs isn’t just a rural vs. urban story. The nation as a whole gained 20.2 million jobs from 2000 to 2019, a 14.8 percent increase.
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Rural Employment Flatlines for the Past 11 Years

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By Bill Bishop, Robert Cushing Verified
| The Daily Yonder Verified
Explore a full-page version of the map. A year after a strange new disease decimated workplaces across the country, the nation has gained back most of the jobs lost in the wake of Covid-19. Most, but not all. According to the latest federal jobs figures, the nation still has 5.2 million fewer jobs this April than in April of 2019, the year before the pandemic hit. The nation has 96.7% of the jobs that were here in April 2019. And that figure generally holds in both rural and urban America.
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