NYT article on rural voting references rural scholars
November 5, 2024
NYT article references rural population scholars Tim Slack, Leif Jensen, and Ann Tickamyer.
“Tim Slack, a sociology professor at Louisiana State University, with the Pennsylvania State University professors Ann R. Tickamyer and Leif Jensen, published national-level estimates of informal work in 2022.”
According to the article, “[t]heir research revealed a hybrid system: Over two-thirds of U.S. households partake in the ‘informal economy’ — which includes household work that generates cash or in-kind income or results in reduced expenditures — as part of their livelihood, often alongside formal employment. But those in rural areas were also more likely than their urban counterparts to report barter and trade as being important to ‘making ends meet.’”
