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How Family Farms Deal with Unexpected Financial Stress (final report)
This paper's purpose is to facilitate effective decision making by individual farm families, non-farm persons in rural communities, and local to national public policy makers as they considered their responses to the unexpected farm financial reversals of the 1980s.
Job Creation, Business Growth and State Policy: Glimpses of the Third Wave
Paper seeks to analyze the role of entrepreneurship as a means of combining resources and adding value to institutions in order to improve public policy.
Bypassing America’s Outlands: Rural America and High Technology
Document explores impact of tech industry growth and Rural community capture of job gains.
California Senate Concurrent Resolution No.34 – Relative to the state’s Hispanic population
Selection of California Senate Resolution discussing Hispanic population in California directed to Regents of the University of California.
Community Development Organizations and Research: What Works and Why?
This paper seeks to improve general understanding of how some local and regional nonprofit, public interest organizations successfully use research to inform their rural development strategies.
Gaps in Our Understanding of Rural Communities
Paper outlines efforts by the Rural Economic Policy Program to qualitatively expand base of knowledge about rural conditions relating to labor and income distribution.
Poverty Research and Policy for Rural America
Paper argues that researchers and policymakers should take what was then a renewed interest in poverty and welfare reform to direct increased attention to rural poverty.
101 Ideas For Stimulating Rural Entrepreneurship and New Business Development
Report outlines ways States can stimulate business development by nurturing and rewarding entrepreneurial activity.
New Alliances for Rural America: Background paper Submitted to the Task Force on Rural Development
This paper examines the role of new businesses in rural areas and how policy can promote the creation of businesses or reduce the barriers to their success.
National Perceptions and Political Significance of Rural Areas
Book is a record of the International Symposium on National Perceptions and Political Significance of Rural Areas held at the Aspen Institute's Wye Woods Conference Center on November 18-20, 1988.
Executive Summary: Reviving the Rural Factory: Automation and Work in the South
Executive summary of study on automation and automation related work in the southern United States.
Reviving the Rural Factory: Automation and Work in the South
Full study on automation and automation related work in the southern United States.