Rural populations decline in America for the first time in recorded history: A recently concluded study from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy found that the population of rural America dropped by nearly 300,000 between 2010 and 2020. This marks a 0.06% population decline and the first decline in America’s rural population in recorded history. The study’s head researcher and author, Kenneth Johnson, told The Hill that “actual size of the loss isn’t particularly a big deal” but “the fact that it actually happened, that rural America, as a whole lost population, reflects a significant change.” Researchers are alarmed by this decrease, in part, because it indicates a reversal of immense growth in rural communities in recent decades. From 2000 to 2010 there was a 1.5 million-person increase in rural population, and from 1990 to 2000 there was a 3.4 million increase. Johnson’s study notes that the Great Recession of 2008 economically “froze” many Americans in place. Unemployment, housing debt, and a generally weak economy discouraged Americans from moving to rural parts of the country from urban areas. It also found that rural populations, typically having older populations, experienced more deaths than births as fertility rates plummeted throughout the country. In recent years, fentanyl overdoses have drastically increased as the synthetic opioid poured across America’s southern border. Fentanyl overdose has, in fact, become the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18-45. Fentanyl overdose has, in fact, become the leading cause of death among Americans ages 18-45. The covid vaxx may be number 1 now. If you die from a overdose of Fentanyl, I am sure it will be listed as covid..........
