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August 2007 Vol.4,Num.3
  • Entrepreneurship, Social and Political Capital, and Rural Poverty
  • Changes in Concentrated Poverty in Metro and Nonmetro Areas
  • Child Care Subsidy Use in Rural and Urban Oregon
  • New Views on Causes of Rural Poverty

June 2007 Vol.4,Num.2
  • Rural Residence: Cause or Effect of Poverty?
  • States’ Role in Alleviating Rural Poverty
  • Rural Community Transformation: A Social Justice Approach

January 2007
Vol. 4,Num. 1
  • Rural Families Choose Home-Based Child Care
  • Leaving and Losing Jobs: The Plight of Rural Low-Income Mothers
  • Coping with Poverty: Economic Survival and Moral Capital in America

Winter 2006
Vol. 3,Num. 4
  • Inequality in Rural Mobile Home Parks: Life on the Wrong Side of the Tracks
  • Effects of Social Networks among Rural Single Mothers on Welfare and Employment
  • The Differing Effects of the Economy and Social Policies on Poverty in Nonmetro and Metro Areas
  • Theories of Poverty and Antipoverty Programs in Community Development

Fall 2005
Vol.3, Num.3
  • Using the Tax Code as Social Policy in Rural America
  • Economic Benefits to Mexicans Emigrating beyond U.S. Gateway Communities
  • The Effectiveness of Job Growth in Lowering Poverty in Persistent Poverty Counties
  • New Report Outlines Available Data for Rural Research

Summer 2005
Vol. 3, Num. 2
  • Rural Poverty in the Northeast: Global Forces and Individual Coping Strategies
  • Obstacles to Employment among Poor Rural Women
  • The Push and Pulls behind Residential Mobility of Low-Income Families in Upstate New York
  • Work, Welfare, and the Informal Economy in the Rural Northeast

Spring 2005
Vol. 3, Num. 1
  • Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice: The Western Rural Poverty Conference
  • Poverty in the Rural West
  • Responding to the Complex Causes of Poverty in the Northwest
  • Welfare-to-Work Strategies in Rural Areas

Winter 2005
Vol. 2, Num. 4
  • The Effect of Job Growth, Social Capital, and Surrounding Conditions on Neighborhood Poverty
  • The Effects of Welfare Reform on Employment and Poverty in Rural and Urban Counties
  • Revisiting the Rural Disadvantage in Poverty
  • Innovative Programs for Rural TANF Clients

Fall 2004
Vol. 2, Num. 3
  • The Defining Characteristics of Regional Poverty
  • 2004-2005 RUPRI RPRC Undergraduate Leadership Program in Rural Poverty Research and Policy
  • Families Facing Material Hardship by Region and Urban-Rural Locales
  • The Changing Face of the Working Poor
  • A Community-Based Research Framework

Summer 2004
Vol. 2, Num. 2
  • Employer-Provided Training in Low-Wage Jobs
  • 2004–05 RUPRI RPRC Dissertation Fellowship Awardees
  • The Impact of the 1990s Economic Boom on Less-Educated Workers in Rural and Urban America
  • 2003–04 RUPRI RPRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardees
  • The Work-Welfare Calculation in Rural and Urban Households
  • Solving Food Insecurity in Rural Iowa

Spring 2004
Vol. 2, Num. 1
  • How Poverty and Policy Are Shaped by Place
  • What We Know about the Causes of Rural Poverty
  • Drawing Lessons from Urban Poverty Research
  • Influencing Policy

Winter 2004
Vol. 1, Num. 4
  • Tribal TANF: A Case Study of the Klamath Tribes of Oregon
  • Welfare Policy on American Indian Reservations: Two Approaches, Two Outcomes among the Lakota of South Dakota
  • Economic Conditions Improve but Hardship Still Prevalent among the Navajo, Apache, and Pima Maricopa American Indians in Arizona
  • Lessons Learned from Implementing Tribal TANF Programs
  • Core-Based Statistical Areas: A New Approach to Organizing Data Across the Urban-Rural Continuum
  • 2003-2004 RPRC Undergraduate Leadership Program Awards

Fall 2003
Vol. 1, Num. 3
  • Letter from the Co-Director: Cost-Of-Living Differences and Poverty Thresholds
  • Adjusting Poverty Thresholds for Cost of Living Differences
  • Estimating Metro-Nonmetro Cost of Living Differentials Using Food Insecurity as a Measure
  • Is the Cost of Living Lower in Rural Pennsylvania?

August 2003
Vol. 1, Num. 2
  • Beyond Poverty Rates: Why Depth and Severity of Poverty Matter When Comparing Rural and Urban Poverty
  • 2003-04 RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center Dissertation Fellowship
  • Addressing Person and Place to Alleviate Rural Poverty
  • Welfare Reform in California’s Agricultural Counties

May 2003
Vol. 1, Num. 1
  • Letter from the Co-Directors
  • Still Left Behind, But Gaining Ground: Rural Poverty in America
  • Persistent Poverty in Rural America
  • Measuring Rurality
  • Employment Obstacles in Rural Areas