Rural in example sentence

WWII, however, provided more than just a fiscal stimulus; it brought about a structural transformation, as the war effort moved large numbers of people from rural areas to urban centers and retrained them with the skills needed for a manufacturing economy, a process which continued with the GI bill.

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It's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both.

Bertie County is kind of a prime example in the demise of rural America.

It's the dependence on farm subsidies and under-performing schools and higher poverty rates in rural areas than in urban.

Perhaps the biggest thing it struggles with, like many communities similar to it, is that there's no shared, collective investment in the future of rural communities.

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