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On October 3, Brookings Metro and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) brought together national, state, and local leaders from rural America to discuss community-centered and bottom-up approaches to inclusive economic development. The event featured the experiences and lessons learned from an in-depth Brookings and LISC-led 鈥淟earning Lab鈥� deployed in three rural Indiana towns, which was devoted to advancing economic inclusion by linking disinvested rural districts to broader regional growth strategies. It also offered concrete policy recommendations for how state, local, and federal governments can better advance inclusive access to opportunity, quality of place, and quality of life in rural America.

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