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Creating Opportunity for Rural People and Places: A State Rural Economic Development Policy Academy
Report is a policy proposal for the CSPA Policy Academy, designed to deliver intensive assistance to states in rural policy development.
Balance Development Goals
Local actions that concurrently strengthen a community’s infrastructure, economy, and natural environment to advance the sustainability and durability of all three.
In It For Rural Resources: A ROADS Event Recap
Resources and learnings from webinar on new federal opportunities for funding and technical assistance for rural America.
Would You Like to Swing On A Star?: Opportunities to improve Education in Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District
Research findings on poor economic conditions and issues of educational attainment in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District, one of the lowest performing districts in public education in the U.S. at the time.
Learning to Seize the Moment with Regional Collaboration
Event recap blog with resources and big-picture insights on working regionally to increase capacity to drawn down federal funding.
Small Towns, Big Picture: Rural Development in a Changing Economy
Report focuses on refining efforts to take advantage of changing rural economic development opportunities through grounding them in an understanding of certain related and long-term trends.
Regional Analysis and Action
Public and private policy, investment, and incentives encourage and stimulate collaborative regional action and the capacity of regional efforts to address shared cross-community economic, social, and health challenges and opportunities.
Shared Prosperity: Building Power Towards an Equitable Rural Economy
Oct. 13th, 2021, 11AM
Building power and capacity within groups on the economic and social margins is a crucial component for strong, healthy and economically diverse rural communities.
Multivariate Analysis of Factors Associated with Earnings Inadequacy in the Rural U.S.: 1979-1987
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.
Pathways to Health Equity: Rural Wellbeing and Regional Assets
How the health equity and economic development fields intersect and can collaborate to bring prosperity to rural communities.
When Low Wages Aren’t Enough Anymore: Prospects for Remote Branch Plant Regions in the International Economy
Paper highlights lack of competition that rural communities provide given out-sourcing and low-wage production sites in developing nations.
Research Report Findings: Investing in Dismantling Structural Racism and Economic Inequity in Rural America
Report authors provide recommendations to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for development of a network to help to dismantle structural racism and economic inequity in rural America.