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Industrial production will likely have accelerated to 5.1% in December from 4.8% the prior month, while nonrural fixed-asset investment for the full 2025 is projected to decline 3%, a sharper contraction than 2024’s 2.6% drop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Lawmakers in Oklahoma and Washington have declared dire shortages, and in Montana, 65 percent of rural schools in remote settings reported difficulty filling vacancies in 2018, compared with 35 percent of nonrural schools.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2021

As might be expected, ownership is higher among the young, the wealthy and the nonrural.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2012

But the most recent venue, the distinctly nonrural borough of Manhattan, is not as incongruous as it seems.

From Time Magazine Archive