Rural America, Vol. 16, Issue 3

Douglas Bowers, editor

Rural America No. (RA-163) December 2001

About this magazine

Rural America, a quarterly publication of the Economic Research Service, features articles covering a wide range of topics related to rural development as well as updates of rural social and economic trends.

In this report ...

Articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Contents, 47kb
• Foreword, 55kb

  Feature Articles

• Reforming Welfare: Implications for Rural America, 1,226 kb
• Nonmetro Labor Markets in the Era of Welfare Reform, 893kb
• Welfare Reforms and Employment of Single Mothers Are Rural Areas Keeping Pace?, 92kb
• Poverty and Welfare Among Rural Female-Headed Families Before and After PRWORA, 113kb
• Is There A Rural Disadvantage in Reducing Welfare and Food Stamp Participation in Mississippi and South Carolina?, 134kb

  Rural Updates

• Farm Labor: The Number of Hired Farmworkers Increased in 2000 and Most Now Come From Minority Groups, 151kb
• Federal Funds in Rural America: Funding Is Less in Rural Than in Urban Areas, but Varies by Region and Type of County, 479kb
• Child Poverty: Child Poverty Was Lower at End of 1990s, 110kb

• Entire report, 2,891kb

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Updated date: December 2001