Rural America At A Glance: 2013

This resource is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service and is an update of the annual series on rural America. Researchers provide the state of rural areas with a focus on the effect of the recession on rural families. For rural areas, even before the recession, unemployment was increasing in manufacturing; other major employment sectors, and the poverty rate in rural areas has continued to be higher than the national average since 2001. The nonmetro population has continued to increase, but from a rise in births and not migration from metro into nonmetro areas.