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 Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?
Report highlights the role of Local commercial banks as an important source of capital for small businesses within their local service areas.
This paper demonstrates a widening income gap between rural residents and urban residents.
Paper provides case study analyses of rural policy issues in both Western Europe and North America
This report examines how the earnings of American workers changed from 1970-1990
Report is a policy proposal for the CSPA Policy Academy, designed to deliver intensive assistance to states in rural policy development.
Paper considers issues that sustainable agriculture is expected to face as it moves on from an abstract concept to a more transformative tool of agricultural system.
Study focuses on the regional and rural implications of foreign direct investment in the United States (FDIUS).
Document provides background and summary of a grant that would underwrite planning process for a major initiative to link rural advocacy and policy research organizations active U.S. rural poverty and development through HandsNet, a telecommunications company.
Report examines gaps in adequate policy-oriented research on the rural poor and what can be done to resolve it.
A profile of the working poor outside metropolitan areas, and an exploration of the factors that lie behind the increase over the past decade in the ranks of the working poor in nonmetro areas.
Paper underscores the potential role that the Telecommunications Industry can play in rural economic development through broad reaching enhancement of industries in various rural regions.
Documents provides summary of the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program's Rural Poverty Telecommunications Initiative.