Steve’s Barking: It’s Dec 14th 2018 and were in the 5th year of the depression

The U.S. farms  and rural areas are in a recession.
One can not blame the current president on it but he did make it worse.
The price of agriculture has gone down.
The decent paying jobs that were in the rural counties that were there at the turn of the century have vanished.
The last time the urban centers were booming and the rural area was not in deep recession was in the roaring 20s, just before the Great Depression.