Rural Poverty In The United States

Author : Ann R. Tickamyer,Jennifer Sherman,Jennifer Warlick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231544719

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America's rural areas have always held a disproportionate share of the nation's poorest populations. Rural Poverty in the United States examines why. What is it about the geography, demography, and history of rural communities that keeps them poor? In a comprehensive analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, Rural Poverty in the United States looks at access to human and social capital; food security; healthcare and the environment; homelessness; gender roles and relations; racial inequalities; and immigration trends to isolate the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty. Contributors to this volume incorporate approaches from multiple disciplines, including sociology, economics, demography, race and gender studies, public health, education, criminal justice, social welfare, and other social science fields. They take a hard look at current and past programs to alleviate rural poverty and use their failures to suggest alternatives that could improve the well-being of rural Americans for years to come. These essays work hard to define rural poverty's specific metrics and markers, a critical step for building better policy and practice. Considering gender, race, and immigration, the book appreciates the overlooked structural and institutional dimensions of ongoing rural poverty and its larger social consequences.

Author : Cynthia M. Duncan
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0865690146

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Rural Poverty in America by Cynthia M. Duncan Pdf

Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed volume focuses on poor, rural people in poor, rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a national problem and the resolution of hidden America's persistent economic plight will now depend on a better understanding of who is poor and why. The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement. Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics. Low wages, the character of rural labor markets, and chronic inter-generational poverty are carefully considered to lay the basis for formulating sound responses. Part Two looks at the condition of particular groups suffering poverty in rural areas. These include African-Americans, Appalchians, Native Americans, and migrant workers. It addresses the special problems of those who, although in relatively prosperous rural areas, live at or below the poverty level. Part Three looks to successful lessons from the past and evaluates current steps that may be taken to frame policy recommendations that will mitigate present stress, foster improved opportunities, and open a better life to America's rural poor.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poor
ISBN : UIUC:30112000843760

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Rural Poverty in the United States by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Author : Cynthia M. Duncan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780865690141

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Rural Poverty in America by Cynthia M. Duncan Pdf

Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed volume focuses on poor, rural people in poor, rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a national problem and the resolution of hidden America's persistent economic plight will now depend on a better understanding of who is poor and why. The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement. Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics. Low wages, the character of rural labor markets, and chronic inter-generational poverty are carefully considered to lay the basis for formulating sound responses. Part Two looks at the condition of particular groups suffering poverty in rural areas. These include African-Americans, Appalchians, Native Americans, and migrant workers. It addresses the special problems of those who, although in relatively prosperous rural areas, live at or below the poverty level. Part Three looks to successful lessons from the past and evaluates current steps that may be taken to frame policy recommendations that will mitigate present stress, foster improved opportunities, and open a better life to America's rural poor.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poor
ISBN : OCLC:1289016138

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Rural Poverty in the United States by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Report on rural area poverty in the USA and insights towards possible solutions - examines the problems of rural workers (incl. Unemployment and underemployment), Blacks and older people, and covers labour mobility, rural migration to urban areas, rural infrastructure and industrialization, rural development programmes, vocational training and educational needs, health, birth control, agriculture and natural resources, income distribution, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : United States President of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Rural poor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005986299

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The People Left Behind by United States President of the United States Pdf

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Poor
ISBN : OSU:32437000448817

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Rural Poverty in the United States by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Author : Janet M. Fitchen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Rural poor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001942320

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Poverty in Rural America by Janet M. Fitchen Pdf

"This case study of poverty in the contemporary United States examines a problem that is widespread but little studied: run-down neighborhoods of intergenerational poverty scattered on the rural fringes of urban areas. Intertwining historical, economic, social, cultural, and psychological material and basing her work on a decade of participant-observation, the author provides a new understanding of the lives and actions of nonfarm rural poor people and identifies the causes of their marginal situation"--Back cover.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Poor
ISBN : MINN:30000011059601

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Rural Poverty by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Author : Rural Sociological Society. Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008514437

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Persistent Poverty In Rural America by Rural Sociological Society. Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty Pdf

A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America. Their findings discredit established theories such as the "culture of poverty" and suggest new explanations for rural poverty and new directions for antipoverty programs and policies.

Author : Paul Milbourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134625550

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Rural Poverty by Paul Milbourne Pdf

Moving beyond the highly visual forms of poverty characteristic of the city, Rural Poverty explores the nature of poverty in rural spaces in Britain and America. Setting out key features, it highlights the important processes that hide key components of rural poverty. The book seeks to challenge dominant assumptions about the spatialities of poverty and the nature of rural spaces in Britain and America. Drawing on a broad range of new research material, the book challenges dominant assumptions. It provides a comprehensive and critical review of the nature of poverty in rural spaces, giving particular attention to: the scale, profile and causes of poverty in rural areas the spatial unevenness and local geographies of rural poverty the experiences of different forms of poverty in rural spaces the shifting governance of rural welfare at central and local spatial scales. Demonstrating that poverty represents a significant but neglected feature of rural life in Britain and America, this insightful book highlights the processes through which rural poverty remains hidden from the dominant gazes of poverty researchers and policy-makers, the statistical significance and spatial unevenness of poverty in rural areas, the ways in which poverty is experienced in local rural spaces, and the complex governance of welfare in rural spaces. Case study material is drawn from a wide range of locations, including Wiltshire, Northumberland and Hampshire in the UK and New England in the US.

Author : Cynthia M. Duncan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300196597

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Worlds Apart by Cynthia M. Duncan Pdf

Over five years, sociologist Cynthia Duncan visited remote rural areas across the U.S. and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with the residents to unravel the ways in which poverty is perpetuated--and what can be done to alleviate the problem. Illustrations.

Author : Michael Harrington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780684826783

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The Other America by Michael Harrington Pdf

Examines the economic underworld of migrant farm workers, the aged, minority groups, and other economically underprivileged groups.

Author : United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044032209884

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Rural Poverty by United States. National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty Pdf

Author : Idriss Jazairy,Mohiuddin Alamgir,Theresa Panuccio
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814737545

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The State of World Rural Poverty by Idriss Jazairy,Mohiuddin Alamgir,Theresa Panuccio Pdf

Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.