The Rural Innovation Network's Role in Higher Education

Michael: I often don't think that I grew up in a rural area, but my hometown was around 5,000. By the time my class met for our 25th reunion, he says, unemployment rate was 6.2 percent and manufacturing employment had basically dropped by a third. Michael: Even as places like Portsmouth and Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania have gained college graduates, they simply just keep falling further behind places.