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McGranahan, David A.; Beale, Calvin L. – Rural America, 2002
A quarter of nonmetro counties lost population in the 1990s, but population loss was not related to poverty rate or low educational levels, perhaps because low-skill workers can no longer expect better wages in urban areas. Population loss was related to low population density and remoteness (which decrease access to services), lack of natural…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Geographic Isolation, Low Income Counties
