Measuring Canadian Rural Diversity and Social Capacity: Bill Reimer, Concordia University

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Hispanic Growth and Dispersion in Rural America: John Cromartie and William Kandel, ERS

Access to Low Cost Groceries in Nonmetropolitan Counties: Large Retailers and the Creation of Food Deserts: Troy Blanchard, Mississippi State University, and Thomas Lyson, Cornell University

Alternative/Modified Measures of County Distress
An Economic Health Index: Measuring the Level, Duration, and Characteristics of Economic Distress: Amy Glasmeier and Larry Wood, Pennsylvania State University

Persistent Poverty and Place: How Do Persistent Poverty and Poverty Demographics Vary Across the Rural-Urban Continuum?: Mindy Crandall, Oregon State University, Kathleen Miller, Rural Policy Research Institute, and Bruce Weber, Oregon State University

Your Place or Mine? The Plausibility of Place and Other Sub-County Typologies: Charles M. Tolbert, II, Baylor University, Troy C. Blanchard, Mississippi State University, and Alfred R. Nucci, U.S. Census Bureau

New Technologies for Examining Rural Issues
Visualizing Rural Diversity: An Overview of the RUPRI Community Informatics Resource Center: Chris Fulcher, Rural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri

Communities at Risk: Wildland Fire and Rural Housing Growth During the 1990s in California, Oregon, and Washington: Roger B. Hammer and Volker C. Radeloff, University of Wisconsin, and Jeremy S. Fried, USDA Forest Service, Portland, Oregon

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