Education Majors in Rural Counties

When I tell people that I write about rural America, I often get asked, "So, you write about agriculture?" But anyone who has spent considerable time in rural places knows that rural economies are more complex than that. Rural counties with economies dependent on farming make up less than a quarter of all nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties, according to my analysis of USDA data. And the share of the rural population that is actually employed in agriculture is in the single digits. (And farming articles make up an even smaller portion of my total writing.)...