Biswa Das, an Iowa State University assistant professor of community and regional planning and community development extension specialist, recently completed a national study on the fiscal condition of rural counties in the United States after the end of the Great Recession. Das was the principal investigator on the study — funded by the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development/USDA — with co-PIs from four other Midwest land-grant universities: Kansas State University, Michigan State University, University of Missouri and University of Nebraska. The whitepaper, “Fiscal Stress after the Great Recession: A Study of Rural Counties in the U.S.,” is now available.