I think there are 2 factors: Lack of income - I retired from GM. From 1980 to 2008, when I retired, we did not hire a single person from the street. As we had openings, they were filled with folks from plants that had closed down. In the production unit, the lowest senority employee had 1974 senority for that entire time. We might never see a time when folks with a modest education and the willingness to work can get a job in the private sector, that can reasonably support a family.
Size of farms: There are very few small farms anymore. Even folks who have 2 or 300 hundred acres are simply renting it out. In our county, there are maybe 12 families, maybe less, that are making a living farming. One example I know of milks 2,500 cows and farms 12,000 acres. To get started farming here would take a couple of million. Obviously, this means fewer folks farming.
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