Rural Employment and Unemployment

Rural Employment and Unemployment - USDA ERS

This topic page examines employment and labor force trends in rural and urban areas from 2007 to 2022, using data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Rural employment has returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic level

Rural unemployment rates in 2023 were at their lowest point (3.6 percent) since before 1990. This figure updates data in the USDA, Economic ...

Changes in the U.S. Economy and Rural-Urban Employment ...

Between 2000 and 2021, farm proprietor and farm wage employment decreased by just over 500,000, going from 3.1 million jobs to 2.6 million (see ...

Rural America is having a moment. The spotlight is on its workforce ...

There are now 20.2 million workers with a 3.8% unemployment rate ... Employment in rural America actually began to slowly decline after ...

Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

... rural–urban gaps in labour force participation and unemployment could give a partial picture of the rural–urban divide in the labour market, as these gaps ...

Restoring Economic Opportunity for “The People Left Behind”

to stimulate employment in rural areas, I propose a two-fold strategy of bringing ... A Path to Ending Poverty by Way of. Ending Unemployment: A Federal Jobs ...

Dominant Employers May Add to Unemployment in Rural US as Fed ...

Employers with labor market power are more likely to fire workers as rates rise because they can more easily hire back when the Fed cuts rates again.

Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

In particular, rural workers are paid, on average, 24 per cent less than their urban counterparts on an hourly basis, and only half of this gap ...

Rural Unemployment Rate Declines, but 1.8 Million Rural Workers ...

Over 1.8 million rural workers are still unemployed – many as a result of the economic fallout from the COVID-19 health crisis.

Rural recovery lags urban - WA.gov

After seven years of uneven economic recovery, 8 out of 39 counties in Washington remain below 2012 employment levels. • Rural areas have higher unemployment ...

Examining Rural Unemployment - The Journal of Extension

Standard measures of the work force include those who are working (the employed) and those who are actively seeking a job (the unemployed). However, when a ...

Rural Areas and Middle America See Smaller Employment Losses ...

April 2020 experienced a massive rise in unemployment for both rural and urban areas with the rural unemployment rate rising to 13% and the urban unemployment ...

Rural recovery lags urban - Employment Security Department

After seven years of uneven economic recovery, 8 out of 39 counties in Washington remain below 2012 employment levels. • Rural areas have higher unemployment ...

Rural-urban differences in the labor-force impacts of COVID-19 in ...

Employment among those in the labor force declined dramatically in both rural and urban areas. Compared to pre-pandemic (January) employment rates of 95.1 ...

Rural Employment Trends in Recession and Recovery

Keywords: Rural recession and recovery, local labor market outcomes, metro and nonmetro counties, population density, economic growth, unemployment, industrial.

Rural-Urban Migration, Urban Unemployment and ...

Thus, the longer the work week, the poorer the relative chance of rural workers obtaining urban employment and so the lower the rural-urban job-search parameter ...

Map of Unemployment Rate, 2022 - Rural Health Information Hub

The Divide Between Rural and Urban America, in 6 Charts

Rural communities still haven't recovered the jobs they lost in the recession. Census data show that the rural job market is smaller now – 4.26 ...

Urban-rural Europe - labour market - Statistics Explained

The EU labour force aged 20–64 years was composed of 189.7 million employed persons and 13.9 million people who were not employed but were actively seeking and ...

Employment and unemployment rate, annual, population centres ...

Number of employees and unemployment rate by population centre and rural area, sex and age group, last 5 years.