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Center for Rural Policy and Development: rural population shifts, nursing-bed declines and mental-health access
Summary
The Center for Rural Policy and Development told lawmakers that in many of Minnesota's most rural counties deaths now exceed births and that demographic change, high job-vacancy rates, shrinking nursing-bed capacity and mental-health workforce shortages are converging challenges.
The Center for Rural Policy and Development presented its annual "State of Rural" report to the House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee, highlighting demographic trends, labor shortages and health-care capacity in rural Minnesota.
"The Center for Rural Policy and Development is a nonprofit research organization created by the state legislature to partner with you and other Minnesota policy makers by producing non biased research on topics critical to our state," said Marnie Warner, vice president of research. Senior researcher Kelly Asch led the data briefing.
Asch told the committee that rural population dynamics are being shaped by two forces: natural change (births versus deaths) and migration. In the state's most rural counties, deaths now outnumber births and that gap has grown; Asch said…
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