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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Agenda: Rural Telecommunications Initiative Advisory Committee Meeting; Rural Telecommunications Initiative Request for Proposal
Initiative entails computer and information technology training to many rural community-based organizations that do not have access.
Research Brief
Demographic Change and the Human Capital Endowment of Rural America
Brief provides an overview of facts and issues pertaining to demographic change and human capital levels in rural America.
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Demographic Aspects of the Changing Rural Labor Force
This report highlights and synthesizes knowledge of labor force and employment trends
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Rural America in the 1990s: Trends and Choices
Paper aims to examine difficulties rural America experienced in the 1980s are in large measure the product of vast shifts in the national and international economy, to the impact of which rural communities are increasingly exposed.
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Explaining the New Spatial Inequality: Regulatory Policy and Local Economic Capacity
Paper argues that while increasing spatial inequality can be explained with reference to the internationalization of the U.S. economy and firm competitiveness, changing market conditions are not the only factors re-shaping the space economy.
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Pioneers of Progress: Policy Entrepreneurs and Community Development, Volume I
Report on Economic Development in Rural America, particularly in relation to entrepreneurship.
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The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages
Paper explores the divergence in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan development over the past decade by addressing three questions.
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Limited Access: Health Care for the Rural Poor
Researchers argue for along term restructuring of the health insurance system and a policy to insure that health care services are widely available if needed.
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Rural Poverty in America
Draft report of Cynthia Duncan's book Rural Poverty in America.
Case Study
Idigenous Oaxacan Migrants in California Agriculture: A New Cycle of Poverty: A Request for Supplement Funding to REPP and the Ford Foundation
Report provides findings and research progress in survey of Mixtec farm workers in the Western United States.
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Multivariate Analysis of Factors Associated with Earnings Inadequacy in the Rural U.S.: 1979-1987
Paper examines income variations among rural families through examining the ratio of a worker's annual earnings compared to the poverty level for a family of four.
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Technology Innovation & Rural Development: Lessons from Italy and Denmark
Report examines development policies in less urbanized but industrialized and industrializing regions of two European countries to find out more about the successes and failures of science and technology in promoting rural development.