The Daily Yonder
Commentary: Which Think Tanks Think About Rural America?
Economic Innovation Group think tank offers tools that introduce “geographic inequality” into the national conversation and bring rural America’s economic distress to the forefront.
It’s hard to walk around Washington, D.C. without stepping on a think tank. One estimate is that Washington has over 400 think tanks and that there are almost 2,000 nationwide. Some have a partial rural focus (The Aspen Institute and Brookings Institution, for example) – most do not. Most are nonprofits, but federal agencies also have research divisions such as the Economic Research Service at USDA.