Funding Rural Futures: Call to Action
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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Globalization Processes and Local Economies
Paper seeks to address the issue of globalization processes from the perspective of local economies.
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Problems Surrounding Health Care Service Utilization for Mixtec Migrant Farmworker Families in Madera, California
Report examines barriers to adequate health care for migrant farmworker families from rural, indigenous Mexico.
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The Globalization Trend
Paper points to rise of global trade as consequence of parents firms in multinational networks losing a little of their relative importance in their home economies, especially in manufacturing.
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Continental Drift: NAFTA and Its Aftershocks
Report finds that the passage of NAFTA caused lasting effect in low-wage economies in both the United States and Mexico.
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Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Paper seeks to expose the features of the general approach to employment and training in the U.S. and briefly discuss implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for rural areas.
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Winners and Losers on the NAFTA “Fast Track”
Paper asserts that the most negatively affected economic sector that would be affected by the North American Free Trade Agreement will be rural, in both the United States and Mexico.
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When Low Wages Aren’t Enough Anymore: Prospects for Remote Branch Plant Regions in the International Economy
Paper highlights lack of competition that rural communities provide given out-sourcing and low-wage production sites in developing nations.
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Regional Impacts and Responses to Globalization
This case study describes the relationship between the globalization of capital and the general decline of a deindustrializing region (Western New York), and relates this dynamic to the particular conditions of the region's rural communities.
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Declining Middle: The Polarization of Job Quality
Paper examines impacts of the changes on the 1980s on the prospects of various ethnic/gender demographic groups, then discusses implications of these developments for families and public policy.
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Rural Economic Disadvantage
USDA Bulletin/Fact Sheet provides on evidence of economic decline in rural communities based on federal data from 1979-1992.
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From The Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged
Report seeks to author a variety of program and sustainability strategies to foster poverty alleviation.
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Interim Report on Minimum Wage Effects on Rural Labor Markets
Paper looks at the response of firms to changes in the minimum wage.