Building Regional Strength: A Call to Action
Insights and recommendations to build healthy, thriving rural & Indigenous regions.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin
This report, titled "Value Added and Subtracted: The Processed Potato Industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin," examines the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of the frozen potato products industry in the Mid-Columbia Basin of Washington and Oregon.
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Skills For Industrial Modernization
Report presents a national strategy to enhance the skills of workers in America's industrial foundation of small and midsized manufacturing firms.
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Residents’ perceptions and attitudes about limited stakes casino gambling and its impact on community life
Document shows copy of small-stakes gambling survey based on resident opinion.
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Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes About Limited Stakes Casino Gambling and Its Impact on Community Life
Keynote slides detailing survey participant data on student opinions on small-stakes gambling as it effects community life.
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Empowered Problem-Solving Teams at Motorola
Paper briefly outlines Motorola Inc.'s mission statement and corporate ideolo
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Rethinking Rural Development
Report explores the increasing role of local government in improving holes in the development net that state and federal governments would otherwise overlook.
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Globalization and Local Economies Impact
Paper seeks to address the issue of globalization processes from the perspective of local economies.
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Health Care Service Utilization for Mixtec Migrant Farmworkers
Report examines barriers to adequate health care for migrant farmworker families from rural, indigenous Mexico.
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The Globalization Trend and Its Impacts
Paper points to rise of global trade as consequence of parents firms in multinational networks losing a little of their relative importance in their home economies, especially in manufacturing.
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Continental Drift: NAFTA and Its Aftershocks
Report finds that the passage of NAFTA caused lasting effect in low-wage economies in both the United States and Mexico.
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Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Paper seeks to expose the features of the general approach to employment and training in the U.S. and briefly discuss implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) for rural areas.
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Winners and Losers on the NAFTA “Fast Track”
Paper asserts that the most negatively affected economic sector that would be affected by the North American Free Trade Agreement will be rural, in both the United States and Mexico.