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The McKinsey Podcast · 2025-09-26 · 31 min · 4,181 words

The promise and potential of rural America

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This is the McKinsey Podcast, where we help you make sense out of our world's toughest business challenges. Welcome to the show. I'm Lucia Rahili and I'm Roberta Fassaro. There's been over $1 trillion of announced projects. 63% of that trillion dollars worth of projects is within 15 miles of rural communities.

and counties. And so you see really interesting opportunities for public-private partnerships, also of course for building new facilities. These are very tech enabled, very clean environments. That's McKinsey's senior partner, Nora Gardner. She's talking about the economic promise of building up advanced manufacturing facilities.

in rural America. You'll also hear from McKinsey partner Sarah Tucker Ray. She talks about what rural K-12 programs can do now to equip their students for a future in advanced manufacturing. And now let's hear from McKinsey's senior partner, Nora Gardner. Nora, welcome to the podcast.

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