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Author Archives: Lisa Mensah

Posted inEconomy

Speak Your Piece: Rural Strength and Possibility

by Lisa Mensah May 13, 2019August 9, 2019

Rural America isn’t going to hell in a handbasket. There’s more strength and possibility in rural areas than today’s popular narrative would have us think. I’ve spent much of my career on and around rural development issues, and I believe we can’t just write off 14 percent of the country’s population and 85 percent of […]

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