Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
Concentrated Rural Poverty and the Geography of Exclusion
Author(s): Daniel Lichter, Domenico Parisi
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Reports that social exclusion and isolation in poor communities often reinforce racial and class inequality.
Date: 2008
Coping with Rural Poverty: Economic Survival and Moral Capital in Rural America
Author(s): Jennifer Sherman
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Identifies a range of coping strategies among
poor rural families in a northern California economy
that has seen male logging jobs decline.
Journal citation: Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages: 7-10
Date: 2007
Effects of Social Networks among Rural Single Mothers on Welfare and Employment
Author(s): Sally Ward, Heather Turner
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Examines how informal and formal social networks affect the likelihood that low-income single mothers in rural areas will work or rely on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages: 5-7
Date: 2006
Federal Tax Policies and Low-Income Rural Households
Author(s): Ron Durst, Tracey Farrigan
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Report finds that expansions to both the refundable and nonrefundable portions of the Earned Income and Child Tax credits provide a major source of income support for low-income rural workers and their families, especially in the South where the rural poor are concentrated.
Date: 05 / 2011
Improving the Safety Net for Single Mothers Who Face Serious Barriers to Work
Author(s): Rebecca M. Blank
Examines the issues faced by women who have multiple barriers to work and for whom substantial work, at least in the short run, is difficult.
Date: 2007
Leaving and Losing Jobs: The Plight of Rural Low-Income Mothers
Author(s): E. Brooke Kelly
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Documents the lives of 12 low-income working
mothers in the rural Midwest. Discusses the impact that inflexible and low-paid workplaces can have on rural families.
Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages: 4-7
Date: 2007
Over 3 Million Low-income Children in Rural Areas Face Cut in Child Tax Credit if Recovery Act Improvement Expires
Author(s): Arloc Sherman, Marybeth J. Mattingly
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Describes how many rural, low-income children with working parents will lose tax benefits. Rural children are more likely to be affected than their urban and suburban counterparts because rural families are more apt to have modest incomes.
Date: 06 / 2010
Paths to Work in Rural Places: Key Findings and Lessons from the Impact Evaluation of the Future Steps Rural Welfare-to-Work Program
Author(s): Alicia Meckstroth, Andrew Burwick, Michael Ponza, Shawn Marsh, Tim Novak, Shannon Phillips, Nuria Diaz-Tena, Judy Ng
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Reports on Future Steps, a program promoting self-sufficiency among low-income people in rural, Southern Illinois. Examines the program's impact on the employment, earnings, welfare dependence, and well-being.
Date: 03 / 2006
Rethinking Human Services: Renewing the Quest to End Poverty in America
Author(s): Tom Corbett
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Editorial discussing recent changes in public attitudes about helping the poor and the potential for new legislation to address poverty.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 2007
Rural Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Rural Communities and Rural Low-Income Families
Author(s): Jean W. Bauer, Mary Jo Katras
Sponsoring organization: Rural Families Speak Project
Overview of the Rural Families Speak project, a multi-state study examining rural low-income families. Provides a summary of the findings from three topical areas: labor force, health, and social support.
Date: 08 / 2007
Rural Residence: Cause or Effect of Poverty?
Author(s): Monica Fisher
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Examines whether poor people are more likely to choose to live in rural areas.
Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages: 3-4
Date: 06 / 2007
Seventy-eight Percent of Working Rural Families to Receive Full Making Work Pay Tax Credit
Author(s): Marybeth J. Mattingly
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Presents information on the Making Work Pay tax credit, which is designed to assist low-income and middle-income working families, including rural working families.
Date: 2009
Strengthening State Policies for Working Families: The Working Poor Families Project
Author(s): Deborah Povich, Brandon Roberts, Tom Waldron
Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
This report summarizes and highlights some of the public policy issues that have been addressed
by the state groups in the first five years of the Working Poor Families Project (WPFP). The WPFP has provided data, technical assistance and financial support in more than 20 states including Arkansas, North Carolina and Mississippi. These state efforts strengthened policies involving community colleges and adult education systems,
skills training programs, economic development investments, and income and work supports.
Date: 2006
TANF in Rural America: Informing Re-authorization
Author(s): Leif Jensen, Marybeth J. Matthingly, Jessica A. Bean
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Compares rural-urban differences in rates of poverty and welfare receipt. Suggests ways to improve TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to reduce its limitations for rural families and help bring them out of poverty levels.
Date: 09 / 2011
Transitional Jobs: Helping TANF Recipients with Barriers to Employment Succeed in the Labor Market
Author(s): Allegra Baider, Abbey Frank
Sponsoring organization: Center for Law and Social Policy
Highlights transitional jobs that provide temporary employment, and a program funded by TANF, as a strategy to help low-skill workers transition to gainful private-sector employment.
Date: 05 / 2006
Unemployment in the Great Recession: Single Parents and Men Hit Hard
Author(s): Jessica A. Bean, Marybeth J. Mattingly, Kristin Smith
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Examines changes in unemployment patterns by sex, age, education, race and ethnicity, marital status, and parental status, paying particular attention to differences by place of residence.
Date: 2011
Wait is Over, the Work Begins: Implementing the New TANF Legislation
Sponsoring organization: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Discusses new provisions in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) and the impact these provisions will have on states' welfare programs.
Date: 06 / 2006
Wealth Building in Rural America: Programs, Policies, Research (Draft Report)
Sponsoring organization: Center for Social Development
Explores research on existing wealth building policies and programs in rural America and
identifies approaches that are working well in some regions that might provide models for other
regions.
Date: 2006
Welfare Reform in Rural Communities
Sponsoring organization: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services
Chapter from the 2005 Report to the Secretary: Rural Health and Human Services Issues. Overview of the impact of welfare reform in rural communities. Discusses barriers including transportation, child care, and the rural labor market. Includes policy recommendations to help address the challenges specific to rural communities.
Date: 04 / 2005
Work and Welfare Strategies Among Single Mothers in Rural New England: The Role of Social Networks and Social Support
Author(s): Sally K. Ward, Heather Turner
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Analyzes the role of social networks and
social support as key factors in the reliance on work or welfare among rural single mothers.
Date: 02 / 2006
Organizations
2-1-1
Nonprofit/Foundation
A telephone number that, where available, connects people with important community services and volunteer opportunities. 2-1-1 is lead by United Ways and information and referral agencies in states and local communities.
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
National organization
Works to educate members of Congress, the media, and the broader public on what is happening in the states regarding welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.
Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies, primarily in low-income and distressed communities, that bring together community practice, public policy, and private markets in new and effective ways.
Finance Project (TFP)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Works to support decision making that produces and sustains good results for families, children and communities. Develops and disseminates information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.
RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center (RPRC)
Academic/Research
Works to understand how policy and practice can reduce poverty across the rural-urban continuum.
Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network
Federal government
Provides peer-to-peer technical assistance to public agencies and private organizations implementing the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. Part of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
