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Rural Jobs Coalition Applauds Kentucky State Rep. Blanton for Legislation to Unlock $150M for Rural Small Businesses - Business Wire
State Rep. Chris Paddie files rural jobs bill aimed at helping small businesses - News Journal
Utah Shows How Labor-Force Growth Fuels Economic Growth - WSJ
Letter: Give Mass. farmers more access to growth capital - The Berkshire Eagle
Columnists Adam Hinds and Stephen Kulik: A rural strategy for economic growth - Daily Hampshire Gazette
Senators Hinds, Gobi, Humason, Lesser and Welch: The Choice for Western Mass: Lead or Lose - Berkshire Eagle
Banks Shutter 1,700 Branches in Fastest Decline on Record - WSJ
Rex Martin represents the Rural Jobs Coalition in Topeka, Kansas - RJC
Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland - NYT
North Carolina Struggles to Draw Businesses to Countryside - WSJ
Goodbye, George Bailey: Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business - The Wall Street Journal
New equity funds ignite rural renaissance and some renewables - Agri Pulse
As Silicon Valley Gets ‘Crazy,’ Midwest Beckons Tech Investors - NY Times
VC investment in US agtech keeps growing [datagraphic] - Pitchbook
Rural Economy Population Migration - United States Department of Agriculture
VCs see fertile ground in agtech - techcrunch.com
Rural Jobs: Make a Living in Your Rural Community or from a Homestead Business - Mother Earth News
Rural Business Leader Points to Rural-Urban Interdependence - Kiowa County Press
The Real Way to "Bring Jobs Back" to Rural America - Paste Magazine
Restoring rural America: community building in the modern era - Farm and Dairy
First chapter in comeback story for rural Maine? - Maine Biz
A Rebounding Economy Remains Fragile for Many - New York Times
Rural America Is Back in Business - Medium.com
A very bad sign for all but America’s biggest cities - The Washington Post
"Silicon Prairie," America's new entrepreneurial frontier - CBS News
A map of where U.S. job growth is spiking - MarketWatch
Investments in small business revive whole neighborhoods - San Francisco Chronicle
Here's how small-town America is primed to beat Silicon Valley in innovation - Medium
Big Banks Cut Back on Loans to Small Business - WSJ

Rural Jobs Coalition News

Rural Jobs Coalition Applauds Kentucky State Rep. Blanton for Legislation to Unlock $150M for Rural Small Businesses

Business Wire
February 14, 2019

State Rep. Chris Paddie files rural jobs bill aimed at helping small businesses

News Journal
Robin Y. Richardson
February 7, 2019

Utah Shows How Labor-Force Growth Fuels Economic Growth

WSJ
Sarah Chaney and Biography @sechaney sarah.chaney@wsj.com Sharon Nunn
January 18, 2019

Letter: Give Mass. farmers more access to growth capital

The Berkshire Eagle
Mark Amato, President of the Massachusetts Farm Bureau Federation
July 14, 2018

Columnists Adam Hinds and Stephen Kulik: A rural strategy for economic growth

Daily Hampshire Gazette
July 11, 2018

Senators Hinds, Gobi, Humason, Lesser and Welch: The Choice for Western Mass: Lead or Lose

Berkshire Eagle
Sens. Adam Hinds, Anne Gobi, Don Humason, Eric Lesser and James Welch
May 28, 2018

Banks Shutter 1,700 Branches in Fastest Decline on Record

WSJ
February 12, 2018

Rex Martin represents the Rural Jobs Coalition in Topeka, Kansas

RJC
February 6, 2018

Why Is Pay Lagging? Maybe Too Many Mergers in the Heartland

NYT
NOAM SCHEIBER and BEN CASSELMAN
January 25, 2018

North Carolina Struggles to Draw Businesses to Countryside

WSJ
Valerie Bauerlein
January 22, 2018

Goodbye, George Bailey: Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business

The Wall Street Journal
Ruth Simon and Coulter Jones
December 25, 2017

New equity funds ignite rural renaissance and some renewables

Agri Pulse
Jonathan H. Harsch
December 12, 2017

As Silicon Valley Gets ‘Crazy,’ Midwest Beckons Tech Investors

NY Times
Steve Lohr
November 19, 2017

VC investment in US agtech keeps growing [datagraphic]

Pitchbook
Dana Olsen, Reilly Hammond
August 8, 2017

Rural Economy Population Migration

United States Department of Agriculture
June 15, 2017

VCs see fertile ground in agtech

techcrunch.com
Joanna Glasner
May 13, 2017

Rural Jobs: Make a Living in Your Rural Community or from a Homestead Business

Mother Earth News
Ann Larkin Hansen
March 1, 2017

Rural Business Leader Points to Rural-Urban Interdependence

Kiowa County Press
Ben Rowley
February 14, 2017

The Real Way to "Bring Jobs Back" to Rural America

Paste Magazine
Ben Gran
January 27, 2017

Restoring rural America: community building in the modern era

Farm and Dairy
Ivory Harlow
January 27, 2017

First chapter in comeback story for rural Maine?

Maine Biz
Staff
January 19, 2017

A Rebounding Economy Remains Fragile for Many

New York Times
Binyamin Appelbaum, Patricia Cohen and Jack Healy
September 15, 2016

Rural America Is Back in Business

Medium.com
Tom Vilsack
September 1, 2016

A very bad sign for all but America’s biggest cities

The Washington Post
Jim Tankersley
May 22, 2016

"Silicon Prairie," America's new entrepreneurial frontier

CBS News
February 25, 2016

A map of where U.S. job growth is spiking

MarketWatch
Sean Langlois
February 23, 2016

Investments in small business revive whole neighborhoods

San Francisco Chronicle
Maurice Jones and Joseph Horiye
February 17, 2016

Here's how small-town America is primed to beat Silicon Valley in innovation

Medium
Robert Scoble
January 27, 2016

Big Banks Cut Back on Loans to Small Business

WSJ
Ruth Simon
November 26, 2015