Population Decline in Pa. Is Happening Faster Than Expected, Data Suggest. Here's How the State Is Dealing with It

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2. Nothing to hold people in those areas.

The older armers are dying off. The kids don't want to work brutal hours for next to nothing.
Then the small towns which support the farmers start losing people becasue of lower farm activity it becomes an doom loop.

HArd to make a living when tractors cost hundreds of thousands and you have to pay the company to send a rep to work on them while payign hundreds for their transit time.