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hoe down blues

Breaking (sod) news from the Heartland, or so sayeth the folks at Newsweek “The future of rural America looks increasingly bleak: fueled by the rise of agribusiness and the corresponding decline of family farms, the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the flight of young people to urban centers, rural communities have been losing their populations for decades, and now they’re close to the breaking point.”

For details, see within “Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America” by Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas.

pass the corn.

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