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Many rural counties in the United States face the dual challenges of lagging economic growth and increasingly severe effects of climate change. While urban areas are not uniformly prosperous and rural areas are not uniformly poor, rural communities on average lag behind their urban counterparts on most key economic indicators from poverty rates to labor force participation. Rural areas represent 86% of persistent poverty counties in the U.S., while over 50% of rural Black residents live in economically distressed counties.
These challenges have been intensified by economic losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has exacerbated existing inequalities and highlighted urgent infrastructure needs. At the same time, catastrophic wildfires, record heatwaves, drought and other severe weather events linked to climate change threaten rural communities and livelihoods.
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.