The report indicates over 60 percent of rural manufacturing establishments benefited from government business assistance programs (state and local tax breaks, training and technical assistance, loans, and industrial parks/enterprise zones), and 28 percent found these programs to be very important to their operations over the last three years. Manufacturers using advanced technologies benefited more than other manufacturers.
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