Rural areas have milder job loss than large cities
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Nonmetropolitan counties had 9% fewer jobs in May 2020 than they did the previous May. The central counties of large cities fared even worse.
The coronavirus recession has led to layoffs and closed businesses everywhere, but rural America has fared better than the nation’s largest cities.
The farther away a county is from a central city, the fewer jobs it lost as the effects of Covid-19 shuttered businesses and kept people out of stores, gyms, restaurants and airports. When there were slight job gains in May, rural counties had larger pe…
