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Calculating the cost of living in the country. Ariel Skelley/Getty Images

January 27, 2023

Rural Americans aren’t included in inflation figures – and for them, the cost of living may be rising faster

Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University and Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The rising cost of living doesn’t hit all Americans equally. Yet the benchmark figure for charting the rising cost of living excludes people in rural areas.

The divide is in the data. American Community Survey (ACS) 2011-2015 5 year estimates, Table S1810

March 17, 2017

Six charts that illustrate the divide between rural and urban America

Brian Thiede, Penn State; Lillie Greiman, University of Montana; Stephan Weiler, Colorado State University; Steven C. Beda, University of Oregon, and Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison

More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.

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