Community Recruitment and Retention of New Residents

Authors

Bruce Johnson, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

January 2008

Comments

Published in Cornhusker Economics, 01/16/2008. Produced by the Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
http://www.agecon.unl.edu/Cornhuskereconomics.html

Abstract

Traditionally, RECRUITMENT in community development circles has implied recruiting businesses and jobs. As for people, the idea was: “build it (provide jobs) and they (the people) will come.”