News Finding: What remained of job and population growth was divided among the 21 percent of counties that are called micropolitans, which have midsize cities with between 10,000 and 50,000 residents, and the remaining 42 percent of counties that are rural.
Paper Finding: 6B) , real earnings growth among females without at least some college education over this threedecade interval was extremely modest.
News Context: Between 2008, the cusp of the Great Recession, and 2017, they enjoyed nearly 99 percent of all job and population growth. What remained of job and population growth was divided among the 21 percent of counties that are called micropolitans, which have midsize cities with between 10,000 and 50,000 residents, and the remaining 42 percent of counties that are rural. Nationally, 71 percent of all metropolitan counties grew between 2008 and 2017, but more than half of the remaining micropolitan and rural counties did not grow or shrank in population.
Paper Context: Although the picture is generally brighter for females (Fig. 6B) , real earnings growth among females without at least some college education over this threedecade interval was extremely modest. Between 1979 and 2007, prior to the onset of the Great Recession, the fraction of working-age males in paid employment fell by 12 percentage points among high school dropouts and 10 percentage points among those with exactly a high school diploma.