Brain drain in rural America
Downtown Tower, near Lake Vermillion in northeastern Minnesota.
MPR photo/Tom Weber
Sociologists Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas spent two years in a small town in Iowa trying to find out why so many young people are leaving rural America. What they found was that many small towns are playing a role in their own demise, by pushing the best and brightest to leave and under-investing in those who stay.
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