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Reconsidering Rural America: Helping Flyover Country Take Off Again
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Entrepreneur Steve Case and "Hillbilly Elegy" author-turned-venture-capitalist J. D. Vance have taken their investment mission on a bus tour they’re calling “Rise of the Rest....
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Despite decades of economic decline and brain drain for many rural communities, some young American adults are choosing to stay in their rural communities, to return home if t...
![Our Towns: A Journey into the Heart of America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/c79761b0-4d09-48fe-82d0-b9560c7a7d71/42287497234_925f6c31df_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C3000%2C1688&w=400)
Is the view from “out there” in America as bleak as our pundits and politicos keep telling us it is? Deborah and James Fallows — who have spent the past five years traveling t...
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Racial segregation and uneven access to opportunity are powerful obstacles to upward mobility in the US, contributing significantly to health inequities, as well as to gaps in...
![Deep Dive: Rural Realities— A Closer Look at the Issues and Opportunities Outside America’s Urban Cores](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/38f622b7-76a5-41d8-92c7-3c4fc0b8a1c2/35462343202_0c7b3d2c98_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C42%2C5511%2C3095&w=400)
Especially since the 2016 election, the term “rural America” is tossed around casually and constantly in our national political and economic dialogues. But those conversations...
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