Rural unemployment continues down, By Bill Bishop, June 4, 2012, Daily Yonder: “Unemployment in rural America continues to drop. In April, the average unemployment rate in the more than 2,000 rural counties dipped to 7.7 percent. And the unemployment rate in exurban counties – counties near metro areas but largely rural in character – declined to 7.2 percent. Both rural and exurban counties had average unemployment rates that were below the average for metropolitan counties, which was 7.8 percent in April. The figures on county unemployment were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty