Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development
Insights and recommendations to foster rural & Indigenous well-being with asset based development.
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Sundown on the Sunbelt?: Growth Without Development in the Rural South
This report, "Sundown on the Sunbelt? Growth Without Development in the Rural South," by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, prepared for the Ford Foundation in October 1991, analyzes economic development in the rural South, focusing on North Carolina. The report highlights a core contradiction: while the U.S. South has experienced significant economic growth, particularly in urban areas, many rural regions remain deeply mired in poverty. T
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Rural Revitalization and Telecommunications: A Study of Four Communities
This file, focuses on how telecommunications can contribute to rural revitalization in the United States, particularly concerning economic development and social services. T
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Strategies for Rural Social Service Organization and Delivery
This monograph, “Strategies for Rural Social Service Organization and Delivery,” by Ronald C. Faas, James C. Barron, and Gary W....
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Demographic Aspects of the Changing Rural Labor Force
This report, "Demographic Aspects of the Changing Rural Labor Force" by Daniel T. Lichter (1991), provides an overview of the challenges facing the rural labor force in America, particularly in the 1980s, and proposes a research agenda for the 1990s. The introduction highlights the shift from optimism in the 1970s to a "new economic reality" in the 1980s for rural America, marked by recession, the "farm crisis," increased global competition, and a return to rural outmigration and slow employment growth.
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Perspectives on Recent Demographic Change in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America
This file, by William H. Frey, examines demographic changes in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America, particularly focusing on the "nonmetropolitan turnaround" of the 1970s and its reversal in the 1980s.
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The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages
This report, “The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages”...
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Explaining the New Spatial Inequality: Regulatory Policy and Local Economic Capacity
This report, titled "EXPLAINING THE NEW SPATIAL INEQUALITY Regulatory Policy and Local Economic Capacity" by Susan Christopherson (May 1991), argues that increasing spatial inequality in the U.S., evidenced by income disparities, unemployment rates, and access to basic services, is not solely due to changing market conditions.
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The Myth of The Coming Labor Shortage in Rural Areas
This Economic Policy Institute briefing paper, "The Myth of the Coming Labor Shortage in Rural Areas," by Ruy A. Teixeira and Lawrence Mishel (March 1992), challenges the conventional wisdom that a "skills mismatch" and a "service economy" will lead to a surge in demand for highly skilled workers, particularly in rural areas.
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New Partnerships for Industrial Efficiency and Growth: Selected Best Practices
This file is a document from the Northeast-Midwest Institute, dated August 16, 1991, detailing a policy retreat on encouraging utility involvement in economic development activities, specifically focusing on industrial modernization and energy-efficient technologies.
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The Great Plains, Canada and Mexico: Policy Issues in Rural Development and the Free Trade Agreement
This paper, "The Great Plains, Canada and Mexico: Policy Issues in Rural Development and the Free Trade Agreement" by Cathy Quantic (August 1991), discusses the economic shift in North America from an east-west to a north-south orientation, largely driven by the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Canada and impending talks for an FTA with Mexico.
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A Program To Strengthen The Research Capacity of Rural Community Development Organizations
This report is a proposal for supplemental funding to continue the Research Capacity Initiative (RCI), a project that assists rural development organizations with research. The proposal, submitted by Priscilla Salant of Washington State University in September 1991, requests $153,000 from the Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute.
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Homelessness In Rural Places: Perspectives From Upstate New York
This academic article, "Homelessness In Rural Places: Perspectives From Upstate New York" by Janet M. Fitchen, argues that rural homelessness is a significant yet overlooked issue, largely because it doesn't fit urban-centric definitions and perceptions.