Family & Youth
Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Family Economic Success
Report serves as a framework for community foundation leaders and partners attending the Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Economic Success Peer-Exchange Workshop.
Rural Family Economic Success: Community Action Workbook
Guidebook is intended to promote Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model for helping community development practitioners and policymakers consider ways in which low-income working families can improve their livelihood.
Mil Duncan’s Comments on Rural American Policy
Remarks by Mil Duncan on RSS Session "Rural America, Rural Women, and Public Policy."
Investing in People: Reinventing Education
Paper provides overview of issues facing education in the context of an increasingly globalized economy.
Treading Water: The Stagnation Of Family Income Since 1973
Report shows wage stagnation among working-class families from 1973-1993.
Health Care Service Utilization for Mixtec Migrant Farmworkers
Report examines barriers to adequate health care for migrant farmworker families from rural, indigenous Mexico.
NEW FACTORY WORKERS IN OLD FARMING COMMUNITIES: Costs and Consequences of Relocating Meat Industries
This document is a collection of papers from an April 1992 conference on "New Factory Workers in Old Farming Communities: Costs and Consequences of Relocating Meat Industries." The conference was sponsored by the University of Kansas and co-sponsored by other universities, with funding from The Ford Foundation in cooperation with The Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program.
Rural Family Economic Success: A Community Action Idea Book
This document, "STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: A COMMUNITY ACTION IDEABOOK," introduces the Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and compiled by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.
Hard Choices: Work and Child Care in Western Maine: A Study of Family Day Care in Rural Communities
This 1991 study, "Hard Choices: Work and Child Care in Western Maine," by Linda A. Wilcox of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., examines the challenges and characteristics of child care in rural Western Maine, specifically focusing on the Dixfield area. The study highlights that, despite growing awareness of child care's importance, rural families' needs are often overlooked.
Piney Road: Work, Education, and Family Dynamics
Paper aims to use case study of several families in the Piney Road community of Georgia to highlight situational aspects of poverty, education, family, and work in the Rural South.
Estimating Child Care Needs in Oregon
Report calls for improvements in Oregon's child care system, that being care of a child by a non-relative (family child care, full/part-day centers/after school activities/recreation programs).
Demographic and Socioeconomic Changes in Rural Youth
Document examines trends affecting children's well-being, including indicators of economic well-being, physical health, academic achievement, and social behavior.