Persistent Poverty in Rural America

Table of contents

• Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society ii
• Rural Studies Series iii
• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Foreword ix
• Acknowledgments xiii
• Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty xv
• Notes 18
• 1 - Poverty in Rural America: Trends and Demographic Characteristics 20
• Notes 38
• 2 - Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Poverty in Rural America 39
• Notes 67
• 3 - Work Structures and Rural Poverty 68
• Notes 102
• 4 - Spatial Location of Economic Activities, Uneven Development, and Rural Poverty 106
• 5 - Theories in the Study of Natural Resource-Dependent Communities and Persistent Rural Poverty in the United States 136
• Notes 170
• 6 - Persistent Rural Poverty and Racial and Ethnic Minorities 173
• Notes 199
• 7 - Women and Persistent Rural Poverty 200
• Notes 229
• 8 - Rural Families and Children in Poverty 230
• Notes 258
• 9 - The Rural Elderly and Poverty 259
• Notes 290
• 10 - The State, Rural Policy, and Rural Poverty 292
• Notes 325
• References 327

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