At a time when our national population is growing. it is strange indeed that half the counties of the Nation are experiencing population declines. This continuing migration of people to the cities poses severe fiscal strains for them. They will be hard pressed to provide an adequate level of services to new migrants or even to maintain them for their present population. The rural areas experiencing outmigration over the past three decades have different. but no less serious. problems than those of the cities. In the past. it was possible for small. sparsely settled rural communities to provide much the same kind of services and amenities as the cities provided for their populations.
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