Persistent Poverty In Rural America

Gene F. Summers is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• Foreword -- Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty -- Introduction -- Poverty in Rural America: Trends and Demographic Characteristics -- Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Poverty in Rural America -- Work Structures and Rural Poverty -- Spatial Location of Economic Activities, Uneven Development, and Rural Poverty -- Theories in the Study of Natural Resource-Dependent Communities and Persistent Rural Poverty in the United States -- Persistent Rural Poverty and Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- Women and Persistent Rural Poverty -- Rural Families and Children in Poverty -- The Rural Elderly and Poverty -- The State, Rural Policy, and Rural Poverty