Across the Great Plains, the agriculture crisis is far moreenduring than the commodity-price catastrophe farmers have beensuffering through the past two years.
A new study documents just how severely the region's rural economyhas tumbled even as the nation has enjoyed nearly a decade ofunprecedented prosperity.
The study by the Nebraska-based Center for Rural Affairs, anonprofit rural advocacy group, shows that during the decade endingin 1997, widespread poverty, depressed incomes, slumping populationsand lagging job growth plagued rural areas in six Plains states.
This amounts to "longstanding, chronic conditions that nationaland state policies have barely …
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