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Overcoming Persistent Poverty And Sinking Into It: Income Trends in Persistent-Poverty and Other High-Poverty Rural Counties, 1989-94, 1,142kb
Rural Labor Markets Often Lead Urban Markets in Recessions and Expansions, 58kb
Rural Industry Clusters Raise Local Earnings, 600kb
Commuting and the Economic Functions of Small Towns and Places, 619kb
Rural Areas in the New Telecommunications Era, 34kb
Industrial Uses of Agricultural Products Such as Crambe Play a Role in Rural Community Development, 49kb
Sustaining a Rural Black Farming Community in the South: A Portrait of Brooks Farm, Mississippi, 58kb
Book Reviews, 30kb
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