If it weren't for the electoral college, I would say let them fall. A jobs program that allows rural dead-enders the skillset and experience to become urban upstarts is 100% A-OK in my book. Changing demographics and changing environments mean that a town built on molybdenum mining should be allowed to fail once the molybdenum is all gone. This, I think, is what pisses me off the most about everything east of the Mississippi: over here on the wrong coast, it's assumed that a town that can't pay for itself will sink into the sand. Ghost towns are just a thing. Places that have been skeletonized by the passage of time are assumed gone and nobody gives a fuck. Shit, I was lost in the fucking woods 5 miles from pavement (or so I thought) and I stumbled across a fully-paved logging road put in in '67 (I discovered later). And there wasn't a piece of it more than 50 yards long without a tree growing through it. But over there in the real America? Ohhhhh fuck if Thumper's Holler is allowed to fall it'll be the goddamn death of tradition or some shit.
They were calling it "farmsourcing" about 10 years ago, and pitching it as like outsourcing to India except in time zones within a couple of hours of yours and without language barriers. Didn't really catch on, but didn't really die out either. Pitching it as being about helping out the coal miners is novel though.