Rural employment falls 6.4 percent from July 2019
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The nation’s largest metropolitan areas had the worst drop in jobs over the past year, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About 1.3 million rural Americans who had jobs in July 2019 were unemployed one year later, according to the recent county-level employment data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.
As tough as that sounds, the central areas of the nation’s largest cities had it worse.
Jobs in rural counties declined by 6.4 percent from July 2019 to July 2020, the BLS data ...
