Building Regional Strength: Key Strategies
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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Spatial Inequality: Regulatory Policy & Capacity
Paper argues that while increasing spatial inequality can be explained with reference to the internationalization of the U.S. economy and firm competitiveness, changing market conditions are not the only factors re-shaping the space economy.
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Pioneers of Progress in Community Development
Report on Economic Development in Rural America, particularly in relation to entrepreneurship.
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The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages
Paper explores the divergence in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan development over the past decade by addressing three questions.
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Limited Access: Health Care for the Rural Poor
This report, "Limited Access: Health Care for the Rural Poor" by Laura Summer, published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in March 1991, examines the challenges rural residents, especially those with low incomes, face in accessing health care services.
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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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Multivariate Analysis of Factors Associated with Earnings Inequality in the Rural U.S.: 1979-1987
This paper analyzes the factors associated with "earnings inadequacy" in the rural U.S. between 1979 and 1987. Earnings inadequacy is defined as annual earnings that cannot bring a family of four above the poverty level, even with a year-round, full-time job.