Policy & Data
Rural Development Councils: Preliminary Findings and Conclusions
Report reflects the experience of the eight Rural Development Councils initiated as part of the Federal Rural Initiative that provides a baseline of information on the organization and early development of the effort.
Sundown on the Sunbelt?: Growth Without Development in the Rural South
Report produces a series of policy proposals designed to address the shortcomings and comparative disadvantages of rural Southern economic development.
The Budgetary Implications of Reducing U.S. Income Inequality Through Transfer Programs
Report uses data from the Census Bureau regarding list and asset information at the household level to provide perspective on relative costs of reducing income inequality by increasing program benefits.
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.
Perspectives on Recent Demographic Change in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America
Report reviews three approaches that propose to explain redistribution reversals of the 1970s.
Family and Household Structure and Change in Rural America
Paper explores changing family structures in Rural America.
Elderly Rural Americans
Document provides implications of a large and growing elderly population in Rural America, specifically.
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.
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.
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
Creating Rural Opportunity: A State Rural Economic & Community Development Policy Academy, A Progress Report on the First Year of a Three Year Project
Materials provide detailed report on the first year of a three year project entitled the "state Rural Economic and Community Development State Policy Academy.
Computer Services in the Rural Economy
Report provides an overview of the computer services industry in rural economies, examines the importance of computer software development and programming services to rural development, and delves into prospective for data entry and processing as potential growth sectors for rural employment.