Essence Smith

Apr 23, 2024 | dailyyonder.com | Essence Smith |Daniel Elkin |Emily Burleson

Rural America is teeming with innovation, opportunity, and solutions to many flawed economic policies. And it always has been. Counter to the common narrative of the decline of all things rural, both history and experience tell a different story. Because necessity is the mother of invention, rural America has always been and continues to be, the most experienced national proving ground for creative deployments of capital, revitalizations at scale, and far-reaching systems change.