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Tax returns from rural counties are slightly more likely to claim EITC. Of all returns filed in 2012, 22% of returns from rural counties claim the credit as compared to 21% from mixed rural (more...

https://rufes.org/2015/01/14/percent-of-tax-returns-claiming-eitc/

Families living in rural and mixed-rural counties claim $24 billion in Earned Income Tax Credits annually*. In total, 6.1 million families (about one-in-five) claimed the credit on their taxes in...

https://rufes.org/2015/01/13/rural-eitc-claims-by-state/

Forty-eight percent of adults living in rural counties*, 37 million people, have not received a college degree or participated in college courses. By comparison, 39% of urban and mixed-urban co...

https://rufes.org/2014/11/19/higher-education-lagging-in-rural-and-mixed-rural-counties/

Over 11 million new residents moved to rural and mixed-rural* counties across the United States since 2000. Of the 11 million, 2.3 were foreign-born. That means that one-in-five new rural America...

https://rufes.org/2014/10/17/one-in-five-new-rural-americans-is-foreign-born/

“How are we doing?” In rural America, this simple phrase is often a greeting wrapped up in a question. Achieving widespread family economic success requires that we regularly ask that same qu...

https://rufes.org/2014/10/06/rural-child-poverty/

The Center for American Progress conducted a review of 30 academic studies that approximated the cost of replacing a worker who left the job due to firing or quitting. Their review concluded that...

https://rufes.org/2014/07/18/how-much-does-it-cost-for-a-business-to-replace-an-employee/

Nationally, the average 2013 EITC (for the 2012 tax year) was $2,335 according to the IRS. The figures, however, varied widely by state. In Vermont, the average was $1,840 and in Mississippi the...

https://rufes.org/2014/01/17/average-earned-income-tax-credit-by-state-2013/

Increasingly, rural America’s new neighbors are Hispanic/Latino. While only a small percentage of Americans living in rural and mixed-rural counties are Hispanic – 12% – they make up a larg...

https://rufes.org/2013/03/18/estimated-net-new-hispanic-ruralmixed-rural-residents-by-state/