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Daily Yonder blog: Rural poverty rate reaches 18.3% in 2011

Posted Mon, 2013/01/14 - 12:00pm by RCAP

The Daily Yonder blog reported Jan. 8 that "the percentage of people living in poverty increased from 15.8 percent of those living in rural counties in 2007, before the recession began, to 18.3 percent in 2011."

Poverty and housing needs persist in rural America as population changes

Posted Wed, 2012/12/12 - 12:30pm by RCAP

WASHINGTON (HAC) – For decades before the current recession, rural Americans struggled with poverty and housing problems. In fact, a new Housing Assistance Council study reports, rural America encompasses 86 percent of the U.S. counties where poverty rates have remained at 20 percent or higher since at least 1990.

Des Moines Register: Ag boom misses small towns

Posted Fri, 2011/05/20 - 9:12am by RCAP

Aside from some scattered bright spots, the biggest boom in farmland prices in 30 years has done little to reverse the gradual decline of small towns across Iowa. The same is true in agricultural communities across the country, according to scholars who track rural economies.

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