{"id":21503,"date":"2020-09-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=51b63ff027d5dfbe50130272ea041ea1"},"modified":"2020-09-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T07:00:00","slug":"redefining-rural-america-with-olugbenga-ajilore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/09\/08\/redefining-rural-america-with-olugbenga-ajilore\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining rural America (with Olugbenga Ajilore)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Economist Olugbenga Ajilore explains how policymakers should be thinking about rural America (it\u2019s not a monolith), and what interventions we should pursue to provide what he calls a \u201cdifferent kind of help.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Olugbenga Ajilore is a senior economist at the Center for American Progress. His expertise includes regional economic development, macroeconomic policy, and issues in diversity and inclusion.\u00a0<\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gbenga_ajilore?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@gbenga_ajilore<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>If you like the show, please leave us some love!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ratethispodcast.com\/pitchforkeconomics\">RateThisPodcast.com\/<strong>pitchforkeconomics<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Further reading:\u00a0<\/p><p>COVID and Rural America: <a href=\"https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/covid-and-rural-america\/\">https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/covid-and-rural-america\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Congress Must Help Rural America Respond to the Coronavirus: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/reports\/2020\/07\/27\/488129\/congress-must-help-rural-america-respond-coronavirus\/\">https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/reports\/2020\/07\/27\/488129\/congress-must-help-rural-america-respond-coronavirus\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Economic Recovery and Business Dynamism in Rural America: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/reports\/2020\/02\/20\/480129\/economic-recovery-business-dynamism-rural-america\/\">https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/reports\/2020\/02\/20\/480129\/economic-recovery-business-dynamism-rural-america\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Rural Americans are Vulnerable to the Coronavirus: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/481340\/rural-communities-vulnerable-coronavirus\/\">https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/news\/2020\/03\/05\/481340\/rural-communities-vulnerable-coronavirus\/<\/a><\/p><p><br><\/p><p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/\">http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/<\/a><\/p><p>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PitchforkEcon\">@PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p><p>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pitchforkeconomics\/?hl=en\">@pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p><p>Nick\u2019s twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickhanauer?lang=en\">@NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Economist Olugbenga Ajilore explains how policymakers should be thinking about rural America (it\u2019s not a monolith), and what interventions we should pursue to provide what he calls a \u201cdifferent kind of help.\u201d\u00a0Olugbenga Ajilore is a senior econ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21504,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21503\/revisions\/21504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}