Of all the political, economic and cultural concerns of today, the "urban-rural divide" is no slouch. But sometimes it's oversimplified, devoid of nuance, or turned into an adversarial narrative (i.e. "urban vs. rural"), instead of carefully analyzed for greater-good fixes. On this episode, we delve into a recent report that pulls apart that narrative and gives us a different way of looking at this "divide," and shows us how urban and rural may be more linked than one might think. Christiana McFarland of the National League of Cities joins us. NLC report, "Bridging the Urban-Rural Economic Divide" - https://www.nlc.org/resource/bridging-the-urban-rural-economic-divide Episode 36: Urban Cowboy 2, or Squashing 'Urban Vs. Rural' - http://municipalequation.libsyn.com/website/ep-36-urban-cowboy-2-or-squashing-urban-vs-rural