Rural in the News

Understanding Four Rural Americas

The Carsey Institute's survey of 7,800 rural Americans in 19 counties across the country has led to the institute's first major publication that outlines four distinctly different rural Americas. Americans from each area--Amenity, Decline, Chronic Poverty, and those communities in decline that are also amenity-rich, have unique challenges in this modern era that will require different policies than their rural neighbors.

Click here to visit the Carsey Institute website and for the report: Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas.