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Advancing inclusive development in rural towns

3 Oct 2024

There is a clear need to advance a more inclusive economic future for rural America, which accounts for 85% of the nation's persistently poor counties. This imperative is not simply a "rural" one. The geographic divergence that divides the country between "winner-takes-most" and "left-behind" places serves to harm the nation as a whole by concentrating productivity in too few regions while leaving large swaths struggling to meet their economic potential.
placemaking state & local finance brookings metro cities & communities anne t. and robert m. bass center for transformative placemaking social equity & inclusion

Authors

William Taft, Mary Elizabeth Campbell, Hanna Love, Andrea Devening

Pages
65
Published in
United States of America

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