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June 27, 2012 |
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| for rural Minnesota to be discussed at SRDC annual meeting | |
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People often lament a brain drain in rural Minnesota (the loss of 18-25 year olds who leave their small home towns after high school). But there is also an in-migration to these towns of 30-49 year old adults and their young children. In many cases, those moving into rural communities offset, or surpass, numbers of those moving away. This, says Ben Winchester from the U of M Extension Center for Community Vitality, is a brain gain. This is hopeful news for rural Minnesota. But the trend must be sustained. To read the rest of this article - pick up a copy of the Murray County News or you can read it on line - subscriptions to The Murray County News are available online. Click on the free demo and it will give you instructions on how to subscribe for the online edition. |
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