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Discussion Paper
Changes in the U.S. Economy and Rural-Urban Employment Disparities
In the United States, long-term changes in the nature of the economy – including advances in technological innovation and automation, declines in the extraction of certain energy resources, increases in globalization, and a shift to the "knowledge-based" economy – have coincided with disproportionately negative employment outcomes in many rural, or "nonmetro," communities, especially for prime working-age men and those with less than a high school degree.
Discussion Paper
The Effects of COVID-19, as Reported by Local Communities
Since early-April 2020, the Community Development function of the Federal Reserve Board and the twelve Federal Reserve Banks have, approximately every eight weeks, surveyed key stakeholders in local communities across the United States to learn about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their community.
Report
Perspectives from Main Street: Bank Branch Access in Rural Communities
Perspectives from Main Street: Bank Branch Access in Rural Communities examines how rural consumers and small businesses use bank branches and how their communities have been affected by branch closures. The report includes information gathered at listening sessions hosted by Federal Reserve Banks across the country between July 2018 and January 2019, in addition to other data and research.
Discussion Paper
Rural Employment Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Region
This FEDS Note explores racial and regional differences in metro-nonmetro employment disparities by looking at employment rates by age, sex, race and ethnicity, and region. It finds substantial differences in the metro-nonmetro employment gap across racial and ethnic groups, with Black or African American and American Indian and Alaska Native men and women having much lower employment rates in nonmetro areas relative to their metro peers.