Country real estate columnist, contractor, PhD, and land consultant Curtis Seltzer writes about isolation in rural America.
The topic is timley in that is offers a different view of the isolation of the rural counties in America.  He is responding to a Washington post article on maple syrup makers in Virgiina in which the Post’s David
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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
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