Rural America, Vol. 17, Issue 4

Douglas Bowers, Editor

Rural America No. (RA-174) January 2003

About this magazine

This issue discusses a number of topics concerning rural America, including rural population loss and migration, recreation counties and their rapid growth, U.S.-China trade, federal funding in rural America, rural land ownership, rural infrastructure, and rural employment growth. Updates on rural conditions and trends include data on migration, rural poverty, and jobs and earnings.

In this report ...

Articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Contents, 685 kb
• Frontmatter, 48 kb

  Feature Articles

  • Understanding Rural Population Loss, 1,109 kb
  • Nonmetro Recreation Counties:Their Identification and Rapid Growth, 439 kb
  • Federal Funding in the Delta, 334 kb
  • Federal Funding in Appalachia and Its Three Subregions, 320 kb
  • Can Rural Employment Benefit From Changing Labor Skills in U.S. Processed Food Trade?, 142 kb
  • Economic Impact of Water/Sewer Facilities on Rural and Urban Communities, 92 kb
  • Resource Conservation and Development Program Reaches a Milestone, 86 kb
  • Who Owns the Land?: Agricultural Land Ownership by Race/Ethnicity, 176 kb
  • How Does Growing U.S.-China Trade Affect Rural America?, 149 kb
  • Farewell Rural America,4 12 kb

  Rural Updates

  • Migration: Nonmetro Migration Continues Downward Trend, 183 kb
  • Rural Poverty: Rural Poverty at Record Low in 2000, 127 kb
  • Jobs and Earnings: Rural Earnings Up in 2000, But Much Less Than Urban Earnings, 1,617 kb
  • New Magazine article, 22 kb

  Entire Report, 5,690 kb

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  Updated date: January 2003