Rural and local employment

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 and local employment | International Labour Organization

Rural and local employment ... The ILO Rural Employment and Decent Work Programme prompts multi-disciplinary responses to tackle decent work deficits that inhibit ...

Rural America's Resilient Workforce - Higher Education Today

Disparities in educational attainment and job opportunities persist between rural and urban areas, with traditional rural industries in ...

Navigating Challenges Faced by Rural American Job Seekers

Declines in the “working-age” population may make it harder to meet labor demands in some rural industries and local labor markets. At the same ...

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

The US economy has changed in ways that have had disproportionately large negative employment effects in several industries that have historically been more ...

Small Towns, Big Opportunities: Many Workers in Rural Areas Have ...

Finds that working adults in rural America are almost as likely (50 percent) as working adults in urban America (54 percent) to have a good job.

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 ...

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

An estimated 46 million people, or roughly 16%, of the U.S. population currently live in rural areas. It took until mid-2023 for the rural ...

The equity of economic opportunity in rural America

Additionally, studies have found that each tech job leads to the creation of three to five additional jobs in the local economy, an outcome ...

Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

... rural areas are more likely to be in employment than those in urban ones, they also tend to have jobs that can put them at risk of experiencing inadequate ...

Resource Map Monday: Rural Jobs Still Lag After Pandemic Decline

Some states are notable exceptions, with strong growth in urban and rural job numbers, including Florida, Idaho, Montana and Oklahoma. Source: ...

Restoring Economic Opportunity for “The People Left Behind”

urban-rural divide is evident among women's employment rates.1. 1 The pattern of declining employment holds among both whites and African Americans.

New tools to help rural workers get good jobs

... Labor's Workforce Opportunities in Rural Communities (WORC) ... local access to healthcare due to trends like rural hospital closures .

Rethinking Urban and Rural Distinctions - U.S. Census Bureau

More people are moving away from city centers to the outer edges of metro areas but still work in urban centers, blurring the lines between ...

20 Types of Jobs in Rural Areas (With Duties and Salaries) - Indeed

20 types of jobs in rural areas · 1. Hunting guide · 2. Landscape laborer · 3. Bus driver · 4. Welder · 5. Fence installer · 6. Reporter · 7. Wildland ...

Moving Apart: How Non-College Workers Fare in Urban and Rural ...

Workers without a degree in cities face different challenges from their non-college counterparts in rural areas.

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 ...

Lost and Found? Job Loss and Recovery in Rural America during ...

COVID-19 disrupted economic activity throughout the United States in 2020. The employment losses were less severe in rural areas than in urban areas.

We Won't Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural ...

Although these studies have primarily relied on urban and suburban samples, rurality also shapes expectations about work and family (Sherman ...

Rural labor employment opportunities - (AP Human Geography)

Rural labor employment opportunities refer to the various job options available to individuals living in rural areas, often focused on agriculture, resource ...