THE RURAL AMERICAN MARKET

The headlines often tout that many parts of the US economy have returned, or even exceed, pre-Recession levels ndash; GDP, employment, wage growth, housing, the stock market, etc. The majority of the US population that lives in urban and suburban communities has been enjoying this renewed prosperity for a number of years.

Rural America, however, has been the last major segment of the population and US geography to experience this renewal, the first signs of which didn rsquo;t appear until approximately 2014.