Top 5 NEW Carsey Reports (pdfs)
- Working Hard for the Money
- Grey Gold: Do Older In-migrants Benefit Rural Communities?
- Place Matters: Opportunities and Challenges in Four Rural Americas
- Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low Income and Poverty
- Demographic Trends in Rural and Small Town America
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- Wall Street Journal:The End of Whilte Flight
- Senior Fellow David Moore on Pollster.com
Michael Swack's Financial Innovations Roundtable looks at scaling up community development
A new publication, edited by Michael Swack and Noemi Giszpenc, highlights recent work by a "think-do" tank housed at the Carsey Institute. Chapters include topics such as capital markets for community developmet lenders, manufactured home communities, and mission-related investing.
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Upcoming lecture at UNH Looks at Tools Used to Measure Human Impact on Landscape
Monday, January 26th, The Carsey Institute and the UNH Department of Natural Resources and the Environment will cohost a seminar by Susan Stewart of the U.S. Forest Service. Dr. Stewart will discuss
Is there "Grey Gold" in your rural community?
Older Americans retiring to rural areas quickly integrate in their new communities and bring significant social and intellectual capital to those communities, finds a new issue brief from Carsey Institute. The brief is among the few studies to consider social rather than economic impacts of older in-migration to rural areas.
“Of the ten percent of Americans over 60 who moved between counties from 1995 to 2000, a disproportionate share moved to rural communities,” says report author Nina Glasgow, a senior research associate in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. “If this trend continues as more Baby Boomers reach retirement age, older newcomers will continue to have a major impact on some rural areas.”
Working Hard for the Money: Trends in Women's Employment, 1970-2007
In rural America, 70 percent of married mothers with children under six work for pay, finds a major new report spanning nearly 40 years of women’s employment trends. As men’s employment rates have dropped over the past four decades, more rural women are working to keep the lights on at home. The report, by Kristin Smith, a family demographer at the Carsey Institute, is the first major study of women’s employment trends to tease out differences between rural and urban women’s work.
2008-2009 Saul O Sidore Lecture Series Announced: Can Schools Reduce Inequality?
The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire and the Education and Sociology Departments have announced the 2008-2009 Saul O Sidore series.
This year's series will offer the university community and the state of New Hampshire opportunities to hear from top experts across the country about the challenges of inequalities in our nation’s schools.
All lectures are held on the UNH Durham campus. Lectures are free and open to the public.
The complete calendar of events can be found here.
A pdf of the poster for the series can be dowloaded here.
Watch the Oct 20th lecture here.
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Nov 17th lecture here.