Overview: Rural Employment Recovering Slowly, Earnings Gap Widens; National Economic Conditions, Slow Growth Continues; Employment: Moderate, Uneven Gains For Rural Employment; Unemployment: Decline in Rural Unemployment Stalls in the Second Quarter of 1993; Industry: Rural Jobs Withstood the 1990-91 Recession Better Than Urban Jobs; Earnings: Effects of 1990-91 Recession on Rural Earnings Were Comparatively Mild; Appendix Data Sources and Definitions; Appendix Tables