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
Report
Report
Family and Household Structure and Change in Rural America
Paper explores changing family structures in Rural America.
Report
An Analysis of Rural Wastewater Facility Financing
Report is an effort to clarify the wastewater facility needs of rural and rural poor communities to assess the outlook for addressing these needs in light of changing environmental regulations.
Report
Elderly Rural Americans
Document provides implications of a large and growing elderly population in Rural America, specifically.
Report
Internal Migration and Population Redistribution
Report examines population redistribution in the 1970s pointing to several factors: 1970s energy crisis and labor force shift to mining, scattering of manufacturing into nonmetro areas, increased favorable views about rural life, increasing importance of recreation.
Research Brief
Issue Brief “U.S. Rural Demographic Trends and Issues in International Perspective” Workshop on Population Change and the Future of Rural America
Brief focuses on changing spatial patterns of population distribution in the United States.
Report
The Interpenetration of Rural and Urban America
Author seeks to pose questions concerning definition of rural and urban America. Researcher focuses on defining rural America.
Research Brief
U.S. Rural Demographic Trends in International Perspective; An Issue Brief
Purpose of brief is to identify some of the major priority issues for research on rural population change that are emerging outside the United States
Report
Creating Rural Opportunity: A State Rural Economic & Community Development Policy Academy, A Progress Report on the First Year of a Three Year Project
Materials provide detailed report on the first year of a three year project entitled the "state Rural Economic and Community Development State Policy Academy.
Report
Computer Services in the Rural Economy
Report provides an overview of the computer services industry in rural economies, examines the importance of computer software development and programming services to rural development, and delves into prospective for data entry and processing as potential growth sectors for rural employment.
Case Study
Building Blocks of Rural Development
Paper is intended to be a reference point for state and local leaders to address economic development in rural South.
Report
Local Economic Development and the Role of State Government
Survey is designed to obtain answers to questions regarding local and state government roles in economic development.
Report
The Uneven Spatial Development of Rural Sociology
Paper argues that part of the problem of uneven development of rural regions stems from an inadequate understanding of the spatial dimension.