Help keep Salon independent

Elizabeth Enochs

In this June 30, 2016 photo, street lamps light up as night approaches over Rocky Ford, Colo., in Otero County, a rural and increasingly impoverished part of southern Colorado. Rural areas have been especially slow to recover from the Great Recession that began in 2008: The most recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that, as of 2014, rural areas still had not regained all the jobs lost in the recession while metropolitan areas had. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

How a more humane economy could help revive rural America

Elizabeth Enochs