On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Many of those have lost population and even in the good times of the 1990s, while the big cities were thriving and people were making a lot of money, the people in rural America were being forgotten.
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congress.govMany of those have lost population and even in the good times of the 1990s, while the big cities were thriving and people were making a lot of money, the people in rural America were being forgotten.
Salazar discusses the neglect of rural America during economic booms.
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