Recession Strikes Cities Harder Than Rural Communities — So Far | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural

The Daily Yonder reporters Tim Murphy and Bill Bishop report:

In the first 11 months of this recession, the most dramatic decreases in employment have taken place in urban counties. Rural counties, however, still have higher rates of unemployment.

Murphy and Bishop looked at the federal data

First we did two comparisons. First, we compared employment — the number of people working — in rural, urban and exurban counties, finding that cities suffered a disproportionate decline in jobs during the first year of the recession. Second, we counted unemployment — the number of people looking for jobs. Again, urban areas had a larger increase in people looking for work than did rural counties.

Recession Strikes Cities Harder Than Rural Communities — So Far | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural.