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100 in the nation, adds to the rural housing challenge: Many elderly move from rural places to larger towns where access to services is more convenient--or, often, where their children and grandchildren have already settled.
• Goss also displayed the population pyramids from recent census projections, drawing attention to the dwindling number of people in their 20s in many rural counties. He referred to the small number of young people as a "stranglehold" on these counties that makes economic development very difficult.

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