There Are More Good Jobs in Rural America Than It Might Seem. That’s Bad News for Colleges.

The stereotype of rural Americans “left behind” by the economy doesn’t hold water, according to a report released Thursday by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. The report’s analysis of data from the U.S. Census shows that rural men are just as likely as their urban counterparts to have jobs with middle-class wages, and that rural workers with a high-school diploma or less are more likely to have such jobs than their urban counterparts.