Why did rural areas recover from the great recession much more slowly than metropolitan areas? Due to declining tax revenues and intergovernmental aid, employment in the American local government sector fell substantially after the great recession. Cuts to local public employment were especially large, long-lasting and consequential in rural areas, which have become relatively dependent on public-sector employment and intergovernmental transfers. The public sector is relatively inconsequential in urban America, but in many rural places, a decade after the great recession, the public sector was the slowest category of employment to recover and the leading source of long-term job losses.

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大衰退和美国农村的公共部门

为什么农村地区从大衰退中复苏的速度比大城市慢得多？由于税收收入和政府间援助的减少，美国地方政府部门的就业率在大衰退后大幅下降。在农村地区，地方公共部门就业的削减幅度尤其大、持久且后果严重，因为农村地区相对依赖公共部门就业和政府间转移支付。公共部门在美国城市中相对无关紧要，但在许多农村地区，大衰退十年后，公共部门是就业复苏最慢的类别，也是长期失业的主要来源。