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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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.

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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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Analysis of Earnings Inadequacy in Rural US

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.

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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 & 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.