Circleville Herald, February 11, 2017: Rising from Poverty: Prosperity grows out of small-town America
“’The rural areas seem to produce really good outcomes for kids from low-income families,’ said Raj Chetty, an economist now at Stanford who led the research. ‘Minnesota actually looks very much like Denmark.’
While the recent presidential election spotlighted frustrations among the rural middle class about wage stagnation and dimming economic opportunities, children from low and middle-income families in rural areas have been more likely to reach the middle class than their urban counterparts.”