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Daily Yonder blog: Rural poverty rate reaches 18.3% in 2011

Posted Mon, 2013/01/14 - 12:00pm by RCAP

The Daily Yonder blog reported Jan. 8 that "the percentage of people living in poverty increased from 15.8 percent of those living in rural counties in 2007, before the recession began, to 18.3 percent in 2011."