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.
- Cover
- Front Matter
- PART I: Report of the Steering Committee
- Summary
- 1 A Vision for the Decade
- 2 A Decadal Strategy
- 3 A Prioritized Program for Science, Applications, and Observations
- 4 Agency Programmatic Context
- 5 Conclusion
- PART II: Panel Inputs
- 6 Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources
- 7 Weather and Air Quality: Minutes to Subseasonal
- 8 Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Natural Resources Management
- 9 Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial
- 10 Earth Surface and Interior: Dynamics and Hazards
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Program of Record
- Appendix B: Science and Applications Traceability Matrix
- Appendix C: Targeted Observables Table
- Appendix D: Request for Information and Responses from the Community
- Appendix E: Statement of Task
- Appendix F: Committee Member and Panel Biographies
- Appendix G: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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