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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Services in the Rural Economy: Preliminary Findings
Report addresses gradual decline in manufacturing industry in U.S. and its role in rural economies.
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Industrial Restructuring and the Growth of Low Wage Work in the Rural U.S.
Report examines the contribution of industrial change to the growth of low wage work in the rural United States.
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State Telecommunications Policy: Working Notes from the Aspen Institute Conference of September 26-28, 1990
Report summarizes the highlights of the Aspen Institute's conference, "State Telecommunications Policy," on September 26-28, 1990 at the River House Conference Center.
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An Analysis of FmHA Rural Development Policy & Implementation
Report describes five basic models for delivering federal benefits, and develops thirteen criteria by which these delivery mechanisms can be evaluated.
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Poverty and Opportunity Structure in Rural America
Report focuses on State government economic development efforts to rural communities, examining six states' policies and subsequent impact on small agricultural communities.
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Black Female-Headed Families in the Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan South: A Profile of Their Economic Status
Report examines growing number of African American female-headed families in the United States.
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A Community Researcher’s Guide to Rural Data
Manual was prepared in order to present reliable and timely data as a prerequisite for sound planning and policy development.
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Half a Glass of Water: State Economic Development Policies and The Small Agricultural Communities of the Middle Border
Report focuses on State government economic development efforts to rural communities, examining six states' policies and subsequent impact on small agricultural communities.
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The Changing Incidence of “Working Poverty” in U.S. Urban and Rural Regions: 1969-1987
Paper examines how many individuals aged 16 and older earned at least some wages and salaries over the course of a year but had families which nevertheless had aggregate annual incomes which left them below the official census poverty line for a family of their size and structure.
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The Political Economy of U.S. Rural Policy: An Exploration of the Past with Strategies for the Future
Researchers argue that there exists a need for a national rural policy of some sort after years of solely agricultural-focused policy.
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Higher Prices, Fewer Choices: Shopping for Food in Rural America
Report presents key findings of a Public Voice nationwide study that sought to examine the access to supermarkets in rural America.
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Rural Workforce 2000: Skill Upgrading and the Rural Economy, 1970-2000
Report seeks to address the importance of upgrading the skill levels of rural works to match the skill levels of available jobs.