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Concentrated Rural Poverty and the Geography of Exclusion
Rates of segregation between poor and non-poor are particularly high among rural racial minorities. Three-fourths of rural blacks and two-thirds of rural Hispanics are segregated from America's more affluent, largely white populations.
One-half of rural poor are segregated in high-poverty areas, finds a new policy brief co-published by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and Rural Realities, a publication of the Rural Sociological Society. The brief, "Concentrated Rural Poverty and the Geography of Exclusion," highlights the challenges faced by America's rural poor, particularly as they are physically and socially isolated from middle-class communities that might offer economic opportunities.
"When they are segregated in high-poverty areas, rural poor are doubly disadvantaged: They have many unmet needs but live in communities lacking the resources to meet them," says Carsey Institute senior fellow Daniel Lichter, who co-authored the report with Domenico Parisi, director of the National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center at Mississippi State University. Lichter is also Ferris Family Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.
The authors present a number of policy strategies, including the need for affordable housing in mixed-income neighborhoods, reducing housing discrimination, and promoting place-based solutions to poverty and low income.
The full brief, which is based on a paper by the authors and published in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, can be downloaded at http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/
publications/PB-Lichter-Parisi.pdf.
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XII World Congress Proceedings Now Available
Papers presented at the XII World Congress of Rural Sociology are now available on the official IRSA web site (http://www.irsa-world.org/XII/papers/). Currently, 48 papers, from eight working groups, have been posted. The papers are grouped according to working group as well as by author (alphabetically). Additional papers from other working groups will be posted at this location. You are encouraged to examine the constructive work of your international (and domestic) colleagues in rural sociology and related disciplines who participate in these very productive working groups.
Annual Meeting
Madison, Wisconsin
July 30-August 2, 2009
Climate Change and Societal Response:
Livelihoods, Communities, and the Environment
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