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Retirees, immigrants driving rural growth

11/14/18 6:19 AM By Philip Brasher
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America’s rural population is on the upswing, but the growth is concentrated in retirement areas or regions with meatpacking plants and other forms of agricultural processing that rely on Hispanics and other immigrants for labor, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.
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