Rural Americans Are More Likely to Participate in the Informal Economy, Study Shows

Rural Americans Are More Likely to Participate in the Informal Economy, Study Shows

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. There is a dentist in my county who often gets paid in art. Artists who don’t have health insurance will offer something like a painting or a sculpture in exchange for dental work. I live in Mitchell County, North Carolina, home of the world-renowned Penla…