Small Towns Making It Work

Tom Barkin

Speech from Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Abstract: Next week is the Richmond Fed's Rural America Week. It's the third year in a row we're bringing together funders and community organizations, exploring solutions to gaps in educational attainment, and sharing some of the many success stories we've heard in rural communities throughout the Richmond Fed's district. The Richmond Fed has an ongoing commitment to understanding the unique challenges and opportunities faced by rural areas. Every month, I visit three to five small towns in our district (socially distanced) to meet with business and community leaders. While I've seen small towns thriving, it's safe to say that in general, smaller towns have fallen behind more urban areas in recent decades.

Keywords: small towns and rural communities; broadband; rural community finance; rural workforce and education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-29
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.richmondfed.org/press_room/speeches/th ... 2021/barkin_20210929 Speech (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:r00034:101292

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Speech from Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Matt Myers ().