New England
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| “My Advice…Is Get Out of Town” In this brief, we use interview and focus group data to explore how residents view the economic opportunities in two rural Northern New England counties and how these opportunities are related to migration patterns.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Economic Development, Employment, Income, New England |
| Forests in Flux The New England states and New York are more than 50 percent forested, a rate well above the national average. Economies in this heavily forested region have historically relied on forest-based industries, and human population has clustered along coastal regions and… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Environment, Forests, New England |
| Demographic Change in the Northern Forest This brief examines the population redistribution in the Northern Forest, which includes thirty-four counties scattered across northern and central Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont.
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change, Demography | Demography, New England |
| The Local Agricultural Community Exchange: Outcomes and Lessons Learned from a Public-Private Initiative to Revitalize a Downtown Community This brief describes a revitalization project in Barre, Vermont, led by a public-private partnership involving the Agricultural Community Exchange, the Central Vermont Community Action Council, and the private businesses that operated out of the storefront.
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Community, Economic Development, New England |
| Ocean Views: Coastal Environmental Problems as Seen by Downeast Maine Residents This brief contends that loss of fishing jobs and income is the top environment-related concern among residents of Maine's Hancock and Washington counties, as well as forestry decline and water pollution. Also of note, across a wide range of environmental issues… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Environment, New England, Public Opinion, Rural |
| The Changing Faces of New England New England is growing more slowly than the rest of the nation. The region is becoming more racially diverse, and demographic trends contrast sharply between northern and southern New England and metropolitan and rural areas. New England's population stood at 14… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Immigration, Migration, Mortality, New England, Race |
| The Changing Faces of New Hampshire New Hampshire, with a total population of 1.3 million, gained 79,000 residents between 2000 and 2006. Most of this growth - 51,000 residents - came from migration. The migration also brought economic gains: New Hampshire gained at least $1.4 billion in income from… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Hispanics, Migration, New England, New Hampshire |
| New England Has the Highest Increase in Income Disparity in the Nation Income inequality in New England is rising at the highest rate in the nation, this brief finds. Between 1989 and 2004, the region experienced the largest increase in income inequality in the country, due to both growth among top earners and the hollowing out of the… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Income, Inequality, New England |
| The State of Working Vermont 2006 Vermont enjoys higher-than-average workforce participation rates and the lowest unemployment in New England, but the state's wage levels remain well below regional standards and the workforce is aging, finds this issue brief prepared by the Carsey Institute in… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, New England, Seniors, Wages |
