Rural Knowledge Center

Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners

Collaborative Strategies for Rural Health & Economic Prosperity

Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.

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Perspectives of Rural Homelessness from Upstate New York

This article seeks to provide insight on rural homelessness based on field research in scattered rural communities in New York State.

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Piney Road: Work, Education, and Family Dynamics

Paper aims to use case study of several families in the Piney Road community of Georgia to highlight situational aspects of poverty, education, family, and work in the Rural South.

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Estimating Child Care Needs in Oregon

Report calls for improvements in Oregon's child care system, that being care of a child by a non-relative (family child care, full/part-day centers/after school activities/recreation programs).

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Demographic and Socioeconomic Changes in Rural Youth

 Document examines trends affecting children's well-being, including indicators of economic well-being, physical health, academic achievement, and social behavior.

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Perspectives on 1980-1990 Demographic Changes in America

Report reviews three approaches that propose to explain redistribution reversals of the 1970s.

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Family and Household Structure and Change in Rural America

Paper explores changing family structures in Rural America.

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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.

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Elderly Rural Americans

Document provides implications of a large and growing elderly population in Rural America, specifically.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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