The Rural Program A New Effort by The Duke Endowment to Help Strengthen Rural Communities in North Carolina and South Carolina The Current Situation: Economic Decline in Rural North and South Carolina
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These global economic trends tend to favor large metropolitan areas. For reasons of industrial clustering, human capital, and financial resources, metro areas have captured most of the jobs in the new economy. Between 1978 and 1997 employment in metro areas in the South increased by 63.7% while employment in nonmetro areas grew by only 28.9%. And in many nonmetro counties lower-paying jobs in services and retail are replacing higher-paying work in factories.
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