In this June 30, 2016 photo, a train carries blades for wind turbines bound for another state through Rocky Ford, Colo., in Otero County. Rural areas have been especially slow to recover from the Great Recession that began in 2008: The most recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that, as of 2014, rural areas still had not regained all the jobs lost in the recession while metropolitan areas had. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)